Summary:
This brand new, international and definitive guide to the investigation, diagnosis and treatment of environmentally-acquired disorders is aimed anyone specialising, or with a clinical interest, in environmental health issues.

Comprehensive and authoritative, challenging and informative, the Textbook of Environmental Medicine is a unique reference that brings into sharp focus the increasing importance of the practice of environmental medicine. The editors have drawn together the many different strands that make up this modern discipline, putting many topical and controversial subjects into evidence-based context.

The expert author team, drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds, has focused on the key issues in the field, placing emphasis on those most relevant to contemporary practice, with boxes providing detail on more esoteric conditions. Hot topics covered include H1N1 influenza, climate change, air pollution, food contamination, antibiotic-resistant infections and the health effects of air travel.

* Global multi-author team with leading experts from both academia and government agencies spanning Australasia, Africa, Asia, Europe and North America
* Fully international in content with much to interest those practising in industrial or industrialising nations
* Extensive illustration, including colour plates, boxes and tables clarify key areas and concepts


Table of Contents:
PART ONE: BACKGROUND TO ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
PART TWO: METHODOLOGY
PART THREE: HEALTH EFFECTS
Section A: Diseases from respiratory exposures to non-infectious
Section B: Respiratory diseases from infectious agents
Section C: Diseases related to exposure to non-infectious material
Section D: Diseases related to the ingestion of infectious agents
Section E: Vector and skin borne diseases
Section F: Nosocomial diseases – hospitals, schools and institutions
Section G: Accidental and deliberate environmental contamination
Section H: Diseases influenced by climate
Section I: Pressure
Section J: Land
Section K: Radiant energy
Section L: Genetic, environmental and infectious causes of cancer
PART FOUR: ENVIRONMENT AND THE PEOPLE

About the Author(s):
Jon G. Ayres BSc MBBS MD FRCP FRCPE FFOM FRCPSG - Professor of Environmental and Respiratory Medicine, School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

Roy M. Harrison OBE BSc PhD DSc CChem FRSC FRMetS Hon MFPH HonFFOM- Division of Environmental Health & Risk Management, University of Birmingham

Gordon L. Nichols PhD MIBiol CBiol - Deputy Director, Environmental & Enteric Diseases Department, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, London

Robert L. Maynard CBE FRCP FRCPath FBTS, Head of the Air Pollution and Noise Unit, Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division, Health Protection Agency, Chilton