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Written by internationally acclaimed experts in the United States and abroad, this comprehensive set of environmental health articles serves to clarify our impending challenges as well as opportunities for health and wellness.

Written in an accessible style that is appropriate for general readers as well as professionals in the environmental health field, this work provides a comprehensive yet coherent review of the principal environmental challenges that confront our society. This four-volume work taps a multidisciplinary team of experts from across the nation to present emerging information about how our world is being impacted, the effects on health and life, and the steps we are taking--and should take--to correct or avoid the problems.

The Praeger Handbook of Environmental Health comprises four volumes: Foundations of the Field ; Agents of Disease ; Water, Air, and Solid Waste ; and Current Issues and Emerging Debates . Within each volume, chapters cover the latest scientific research findings in an objective manner and present practical applications of the information. Topics addressed include air and water contaminants, PCBs, hazardous waste, household cleaning products, dioxin, plastics, radiation, radon, electromagnetic fields, and noise and light pollution, just to name a few. This title stands alone in its comprehensive coverage of environmental health topics.

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This edited work contains about 100 chapters written by over 150 contributors, largely from government and academia. The 2,400 pages are divided into four volumes, with each volume dedicated, by title, to a different aspect of environmental health. The topics are many, including pathogens, chemical hazards, radiation, toxicology, risk assessment, accidents, epidemiology, law, waste management, and occupational health. The short introduction to the handbook presents a list of the main topics covered, but this table exemplifies a major usability flaw: the topical outline is not used to arrange chapters in the handbook volumes. Readers who head for the index will discover that there is no master index; each volume has only its own. The chapter subjects have no cross-references, although discussions on a subject often appear in other chapters in the same and different volumes.Each volume opens with a chapter title listing, but there is no outline or introduction for that volume. The articles have ample literature citations and are sprinkled with tables and figures. Topics overlap heavily in too many chapters, with several that are puzzling to find in a work on environmental health; for example, chapter 22, "Lighting and Astronomy," discusses astronomers' difficulties with nighttime lighting. Reprints are used for several chapters. The discussions on occupational health and risk assessment stand out favorably, but asbestos is covered as a legal and public policy scandal, as is environmental justice. Three chapters on PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) are too many. Some articles are appropriate for general readers, but others are accessible only for graduate students and researchers. Summing Up: Optional. Academic, professional, and general library collections. B. C. Wyman McNeese State University

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Robert H. Friis is professor emeritus of health science and chair emeritus of the Health Science Department at California State University, Long Beach.