OTHER INFORMATION SOURCES:

I consider The Endangered Brain (amazon.com) by Dr. Kilburn (Princeton Scientific Publications) and Less Toxic Alternatives(214-361-9515) by Carolyn Gorman the two most basic references. Those listed below offer other useful information on specific topics.

Indoor Air Quality: Tools for Schools: The US Environmental Protection Agency, American Lung Association, other groups.

The Healthy Household by Lynn Bower (Healthy House Institute, 430 North Sewall Road, Bloomington, IN 47408).

Healthy House Building by John Bower (Healthy House Institute, above).

The Health Detectives Handbook: A Guide to the Investigation of Environmental Health Hazards by Nonprofessionals, by M Legator, B. Harper, M. Scott. (useful for professionals too).

Staying Well in a Toxic World by Lynn Lawson

How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 Houseplants That Purify Your Home or Office by Dr. B.C. Wolverton.

Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

Regulating Pesticides in Foods, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

Rodale’s Color Handbook for Garden Insects by Anna Carr (to know what pest you have so you can use best nontoxic control).

Organic Plant Protection by Rodale Press.

Common Sense Pest Control by W. Olkowski.

Gardens Alive catalogue of nontoxic pest control ().

Necessary Trading Company, One Natures Way, New Castle, VA 24127.

Cancer and the Worker National Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd St., NY, NY 10021.

The Case of the Workplace Killers: A Manual for Cancer Detectives on the Job, United Auto Workers Union.

Cancer and Work: Making Sense of Worker’s Experience, 0University Statistical Laboratory and General and Municipal Workers Union, London or other British Locations (How to be a workplace cancer detective.)

Occupational Lung Diseases, American Lung Association.

How to Use OSHA: A Workers Action Guide to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Urban Planning Aid, Cambridge, MA.

Stand Up: A Guide to Worker’s Rights by Stan Margaronis, Public Media Center Publication.

Teaching About Job Hazards: A Guide For Workers and Their Health Providers by N. Wallerstein and H. Rubenstein, American Public Health Association.

Healthy Work: Stress, Productivity and the Reconstruction of Working Life by R. Karasek and T. Theorell.

Noise Control: A Guide for Workers and Employers, US Department of Labor.

Reproductive Hazards at Work, Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Ottowa, Ontario.

Combating Hazards on the Job: A Workers Guide, Food and Beverage Trades Department (OSHA funded union publication).

A Workers Guide to Documenting Health and Safety Problems, Labor Occupational Health Program, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley.

Workplace Health and Safety: A Guide to Collective Bargaining, Labor Occupational Health Program, above.

Health Hazards in Electronics: A Handbook, (excellent) by Tom Gassert, Asia Monitor Resource Program, Asia Monitor Resource Center, Hong Kong.

Artist Beware: The Hazards and Precautions in Working with Art and Craft Material, Dr. Michael McCann, Ph.D.

Health and Safety Guide for the Graphic Arts Industry Graphic Arts International Union, AFL-CIO.

Crisis in the Workplace: Occupational Disease and Injury, by Nicholas A. Ashford, A report to the Ford Foundation.

Prevention of Occupational Cancer-International Symposium, Occupational Safety and Health Series, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Prevention of Occupational Cancer, Helsinki, 21-24 April 1982.

Chemical Exposure and Disease, Diagnostic and Investigative Techniques, by Janette D. Sherman, M.D., Princeton Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., 1994.

Occupational Cancer by Michael Alderson, Butterworth and Co., Publishers, Ltd, 1986.

Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings, 5th Edition, US EPA, 735-R-98-003, March 1999.

National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, March 2001.

Pesticides and the Immune System: The Public Health Risks by Robert Repetto and Sanjay S. Baliga, World Resources Institute, March 1996.

A Failure to Protect, National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, Jay Feldman and Eleanor J. Lewis, February 1995.

Living in a Chemical World, Occupational and Environmental Significance of Industrial Carcinogens, Editors Cesare Maltoni and Irving J. Selikoff Vol. 534.

Life’s Delicate Balance, Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer by Janette D. Sherman, M.D.

Brain Tumors in the Chemical Industry, Editors Irving J. Selikoff and E. Cuyler Hammond, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 381.

The Healthy House Answer Book, John and Lynn Marie Bower, The Healthy House Institute.

Improve Your School, A Guide for Preventing and Resolving Indoor Air Quality, US EPA, May 1994.

Healthy Hospitals: Controlling Pests Without Harmful Pesticides by K. Owens ().

(As time passes, if any of the above become unavailable without plans for any reprinting, Dr. Ziem has a copy that could be scanned and made available with assistance from websites offering free or at-cost downloading.)