Actions for Phantom risk : scientific inference and the law
Phantom risk : scientific inference and the law / edited by Kenneth R. Foster, David E. Bernstein, Peter W. Huber
- Published
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.
- Edition
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 457 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Foster, Kenneth R., Bernstein, David E., and Huber, Peter W. (Peter William), 1952-2021
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Weak magnetic fields : a cancer connection? / Kenneth R. Foster -- Spermicides and birth defects / James L. Mills -- Bendectin and the language of causation / Louis Lasagna and Sheila R. Shulman -- Miscarriage and video display terminals : an update / Kenneth R. Foster -- Environmental pollution and cancer : some misconceptions / Bruce N. Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold -- Asbestos : the hazard, the risk, and public policy / Ralph D'Agostino, Jr., and Richard Wilson -- The human health effects of polychlorinated biphenyls / Renate D. Kimbrough -- Trichloroethylene : toxicology and epidemiology : a critical review of the literature / Rudolph J. Jaeger and Arlene L. Weiss -- Dioxin : perceptions, estimates, and measures / Michael Gough -- The Three Mile Island nuclear accident and public health consequences / George K. Tokuhata. and The fallout controversy / Ralph E. Lapp -- The saga of Fernald / Bernard L. Cohen -- Trauma and cancer / Marvin M. Romsdahl -- Chemical pollutants and "multiple chemical sensitivities" / Michael I. Luster, Gary J. Rosenthal, and Dori R. Germolec -- Immunological laboratory tests : a critique of the Alcolac decision / Richard S. Cornfeld and Stuart F. Schlossman.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0585078114 (electronic bk.)
9780585078113 (electronic bk.)
0262273004
9780262273008
0262561190 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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