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Readings forMiller, Sustainingthe Earth, 8th Edition

Chapter 11 Environmental Hazards and Human Health

About. Health Issues and the Environment. http://environment.about.com/od/environmentalhealth/

Action on Smoking and Health. 1998. ASH Smoking and Health Review. Washington, D.C.: Action on Smoking and Health.

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Allan, Stuart, ed. 2001. Environmental Risks and the Media. London: UCL Press.

Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics. www.apua.org

Amabile-Cuevas, Carlos F. 2003. “New Antibiotics and New Resistance.” American Scientist, vol.91, March-April, 138.

American Council on Science and Health. 1997. Cigarettes: What the Warning Label Doesn't Tell You. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus.

Ames, Bruce, et al. 1990. “Nature’s Chemicals and Synthetic Chemicals: Comparative Toxicology.” Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America, vol. 87, 7782.

Annenberg/CPB. Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth (Microbiological World). Video Series. http://www.learner.org/resources/series147.html

Ausbel, Kenny, and J.P. Harpignies. 2004. Ecological Medicine: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves. San Francisco, Calif.: Sierra Club Books.

Baggs, Sydney, and Joan C. Baggs. 1997. The Healthy House: Creating a Safe, Healthy, and Environmentally Friendly Home. New York: HarperCollins.

Baker-Laporte, Paula, et al. 2001. Prescriptions for a Healthy House: A Practical Guide for Architects, Builders, and Homeowners. Gabriola Island, B.C., Canada: New Society.

Barnett, Tony, and Alan Whiteside. 2003. AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Civilization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Barry, David. 2004. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. New York: Viking.

Bartecchi, Carl E., et al. 1995. "The Global Tobacco Epidemic." Scientific American, May, 44.

Bates, David V. 1995. Environmental Health Risks and Public Policy: Decision Making in Free Societies. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Bates, Roger. 1997. What Risk? Newton, Mass.: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Bazell, Robert. 2003. “Revolutionary War: How AIDS Treatment for Poor Countries Became Possible. Slate, Oct. 16. http://slate.msn.com/id/2089907/

Behrman, Greg. 2004. Voices of the Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic. New York: Free Press. Online interview with author at http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/19572/

Berkson, D. Lindsey. 2001. Hormone Deception: How Everyday Foods and Products Are Disrupting Your Hormones. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Bernarde, Melvin A. 1989. Our Precarious Habitat: Fifteen Years Later. New York: Wiley.

Best, Joel. 2001. Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers From the Media, Politicians, and Activists. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Best, Joel. 2004. More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Blaustein, Andrew R., and P.T.T. Johnson. 2003. "Explaining Frog Deformities." Scientific American, vol. 288, no. 2, 60.

Blumenthal, Daniel S., and James Ruttenberg, eds. 1995. Introduction to Environmental Health. 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Bogo, Jennifer. 2001. "Children at Risk." E Magazine, September/October, 27.

Boyce, Nell. 2004. “Is There a Tonic in the Toxin? (Hormesis). U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 18, p. 74.

Brain, Marshall. How Your Immune System Works. http://science.howstuffworks.com/immune-system.htm

Briggs, Shirley A. 2002. Basic Guide to Pesticides: Their Characteristics and Hazards. Silver Spring, Md.: Rachel Carson Council. http://www.members.aol.com/rccouncil/ourpage/samples.htm#contact

Brown, Paul. 2004. “Mad-Cow Disease in Cattle and Human Beings.” American Scientist, vol. 92, 334.

Budiansky, Stephen. 2002. “Creatures of Our Own Making.” Science, vol. 298, 80.

Burdon, Roy. 2003. The Suffering Gene: Environmental Threats to Our Health. . Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed.

Byrnes, Mark E., et al. 2003. Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Terrorism: Emergency Response and Public Protection. Boca Raton, Fla.: Lewis.

Cadbury, Deborah. 1999. Altering Eden: The Feminization of Nature. New York: St. Martin's.

Calabrese, E. J., and L. A. Baldwin. 2003. “Toxicology Rethinks Its Central Belief.” Nature, vol. 421, 691.

Calow, Peter. 1997. Controlling Environmental Risks from Chemicals: Principles and Practice. New York: Wiley.

Canada’s National Occupational Health & Safety Resource (CCOHS). Chemicals and Materials. http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/chemicals/

Casper, Monica J., ed. 2003. Synthetic Planet: Chemicals Politics, and the Hazards of Modern Life. New York: Routledge.

Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities. Environment and Hormones. http://e.hormone.tulane.edu/

Center for Ethics and Toxics (CETOS). http://www.cetos.org/

Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ). http://www.chej.org/

Center for Science in the Public Interest. Antibiotic Resistance Project. http://www.cspinet.org/ar/index.html

Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Health, Nutrition, and Diet. http://cspinet.org/nutrition/

Children’s Environmental Health Network. http://www.cehn.org/

Children’s Health. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/childrenshealth.html

Chiles, James R. 2001. Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology. New York: HarperBusiness.

Chivian, Eric, et al. 1993. Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Cohen, Mark N. 1989. Health and the Rise of Civilization. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.

Colborn, Theo, et al. 1996. Our Stolen Future. New York: Dutton. Website: http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/

Collman, James P. 2001. Naturally Dangerous: Surprising Facts About Food, Health and the Environment. New York: University Science Books.

Commoner, Barry. 2002. “Unraveling the DNA Myth.” Harper’s Magazine, February, 39.

Consumers Union. Food Safety Issues. http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_food.html

Consumers Union. Risk Assessment. http://www.consumersunion.org/i/Food_Safety/Risk_Assessment/index.html

Consumers Union. Stop Hospital Infections. https://secure2.convio.net/cu/site/Advocacy?id=263&page=UserAction&JServSessionIdr006=v1lgtdby21.app1a

Coogan, Patricia, and Terry Greene. 1992. Environment and Health: How to Investigate Community Health Problems. Boston, Mass.: JSI Center for Environmental Health Studies.

Council on Foreign Relations. 2002. Terrorism: Questions and Answers: Responding to Biological Attacks. http://www.terrorismanswers.com/security/biological.html

Council on Foreign Relations. 2002. Terrorism: Questions and Answers: Responding to Chemical Attacks. http://www.terrorismanswers.com/security/chemical.html

Couzin, Jennifer. 2003. “Sipping From a Poisoned Chalice.” Science, vol. 302, 376.

Dadd-Redalla, Debra. 1994. Sustaining the Earth: Choosing Consumer Products That Are Environmentally Safe for You. New York: Hearst Books.

Daniel, Thomas M. 1999. Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis. Rochester, N. Y.: University of Rochester Press.

Daszak, P., et al. 2000, Emerging Infectious Disease of Wildlife—Threats to Biodiversity and Human Health.” Science, vol. 287, 443.

Davies, Clarence, ed. 1996. Comparing Environmental Risks: Tools for Setting Government Guidelines. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future.

Davies, Pete. 2000. Devil’s Flu: The World’s Deadliest Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused It. New York: Owl.

Davis, Derva. 2002. When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution. New York: Basic Books.

Dernbach, John C., ed. 2002. Stumbling Toward Sustainability. Washington, D.C.: Environmental Law Institute.

Desalle, Rob. 1999. Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease. New York: Norton.

de Souza, Roger-Mark, et al. 2003. “Critical Links: Population, Health, and the Environment.” Population Bulletin, vol. 58, no. 3, 1-42.

Desowitz, Robert S. 1993. The Malaria Capers: More Tales of Parasites and People, Research and Reality. New York: Norton.

Desowitz, Robert S. 1997. Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World. New York: Norton.

Diamond, Jared. 1999. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton.

Dixon, Bernard. 1994. Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World. San Francisco, Calif.: W.H. Freeman.

Donnelly, C.A., et al. 2003. “Epidemiological Determinants of Spread of Causal Agent of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong.” Lancet, vol. 361, 111.

Dormandy, Thomas. 2001. The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis. London: Hambledon & London.

Drlica, Karl L. 1996. Double-Edged Sword: The Promises and Risks of the Genetic Revolution. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.

Earth Justice. Health and Communities. http://www.earthjustice.org/program/health_and_communities/

Ecologist Magazine: Rethinking Basic Assumptions. http://www.theecologist.org/

Eco-Portal—The Environmental Sustainability Info Source. Toxics. http://www.environmentalsustainability.info/Toxics/

Emsley, John. 1994. The Consumers' Good Chemical Guide: A Jargon-Free Guide to the Chemicals of Everyday Life. New York: W.H. Freeman.

Emergency Bioterrorism Kit. http://bob.nap.edu/shelves/first/

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals. http://www.pmac.net/erice.htm

EngenderHealth: Improving Women’s Health Worldwide. http://www.engenderhealth.org/

Enserink, Martin. 2002. “West Nile’s Surprisingly Swift Continental Sweep.” Science, vol. 297, 1988.

Enserink. Martin. 2003. “For Precarious Populations, Pollutants Present New Perils.” Science, vol. 299, 1642.

Envirolink: The Online Environmental Community: Human Health. http://www.envirolink.org/topics.html?topicsku=2002119144601&topic=Human%20Health&topictype=topic

Envirolink: The Online Environmental Community: Pollution Prevention. http://www.envirolink.org/topics.html?topic=Pollution%20Prevention&topicsku=2002116191202&topictype=subtopic

Environment California, Toxics and Environmental Health Program. 2004. Growing Up Toxic: Chemical Exposures and Increases in Developmental Disease. June. http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/envirocaliftoxics.asp?id2=13673

Environmental Defense. Toxic Chemical Pollution Scorecard In Local Communities. http://www.scorecard.org/

Environmental Media Services. Reporters’ Guide to Endocrine Disruptors. http://www.ems.org/endocrine_disruptors/facts.html

Environmental Media Services. Reporters’ Guide to Malaria. http://www.ems.org/malaria/facts.html

Environmental Media Services. Reporters’ Guide to Male Reproductive. http://www.ems.org/male_reproductive/missouri_study_release.html

Environmental Media Services. Reporters’ Guide to PCBs. http://www.ems.org/pcb/facts.html

Environmental Media Services. Reporters’ Guide to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS). http://www.ems.org/pops/sub2_pops.html

Environmental Media Services. Reporters’ Guide to West Nile Virus. http://www.ems.org/west_nile_virus/facts.html

Environmental Research Foundation. Rachel’s Environment & Health News. http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=4

Environmental Research Foundation. 1998. “Children’s Cancer and Pesticides.” Rachel’s Environment & Health Weekly, #588, Mar. 5. http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r588.html

Ewald, Paul W. 1993. "The Evolution of Virulence." Scientific American, vol. 268, no. 4, 56.

Eyles, John, and Nicole Consitt. 2004. “What’s at Risk? Environmental Influences on Human Health.” Environment, vol. 46, no. 8, 25.

Finkel, Adam M. 1996. "Who's Exaggerating?" Discover, May, 48.

Finkel, Adam M., and Dominic Golding. 1994. Worst Things First? The Debate Over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future.

Fisher, Jeffrey A. 1994. The Plague Makers: How We Are Creating Catastrophic New Epidemics and What We Must Do to Avert Them. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Foster, Kenneth R., et al. 1994. Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Foundation of Bacteria. Museum of Bacteria. http://www.bacteriamuseum.org/

Fox, Michael W. 1992. Superpigs and Wondercorn: The Brave New World of Biotechnology and Where It All May Lead. New York: Lyons & Burford.

Fox, Nicols. 1997. Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain Gone Haywire. New York: Basic Books.

Francis, B. M. 1994. Toxic Substances in the Environment. New York: Wiley.

Freedman, B. 1994. Environmental Ecology. New York: Academic.

Freeze, R. Allan. 2000. The Environmental Pendulum: A Quest for Truth About Toxic Chemicals, Human Health, and the Environment. Berkeley: University of California Press.

French, David. 2003. “Health News Can Be Hazardous to Your Health.” AlterNet. Feb. 6. http://www.alternet.org/story/15121

Freudenburg, William R. 1988. "Perceived Risk, Real Risk: Social Science and the Art of Probabilistic Risk Assessment." Science, vol. 242, 44.

Freudenrich, Craig C. How Mosquitoes Work. http://www.howstuffworks.com/mosquito.htm

Freudenthal, Ralph I., and Susan L. Freudenthal. 1989. What You Need to Know to Live with Chemicals. Greens Farms, Conn.: Hill & Garnett.

Gandy, Matthew, and Alimuddin Zumla. 2003. The Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the ‘New’ Tuberculosis. New York: Verso.

Garrett, Laurie. 1995. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. New York: Penguin.

Garrett, Laurie. 2000. Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. New York: Hyperion.

Gelb, Michael H., and Wim G. J. Hol. 2002. “Drugs to Combat Tropical Protozoan Parasites.” Science, vol. 297, 343.

Gigerenzer, Gerd. 2002. Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Gilbert, Steven G. 2004. A Small Dose of Toxicology: The Health Effects of Common Chemical. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC.

Gillis, Anna Maria. 1993. "Toxicity Tests Minus Animals?" BioScience, vol. 43, no. 3, 137.

Glendinning, Chellis. 1987. When Technology Wounds: The Human Consequences of Progress. New York: Morrow.

Goklany, Indur M. 2001. The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute.

Goldberg, Rebecca. 2004. Environmental Contributions to Antibiotic Disease. http://www.med.harvard.edu/chge/textbook/infectious/abxresistance/abxresistance.htm

Goldman, Benjamin. 1991. The Truth About Where You Live. New York: Times Books.

Goldstein, Inge F., and Martin Goldstein. 2002 How Much Risk? A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards. New York: Oxford University Press.

Goodman, Maurice H. 2003. Basic Medical Endocrinology. 3rd ed. New York: Raven.

Gourevitch, Alexander. 2003. “Should the DDT Ban Be Lifted?” AlterNet, Apr. 9. http://www.alternet.org/story/15599

Graham, John D., and Jonathan B. Weiner, eds. 1995. Risk vs. Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Greek, C. Ray, and Jean S. Greek. 2000. Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experimentation on Animals. New York: Continuum.

Guillemin, Jeanne, 2004. Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism. New York: Columbia University Press.

Guillette, Louis J., Jr., et al. 2000. “Alligators and Endocrine Disrupting Contaminants: A Current Perspective.” American Zoologist, vol. 40, 438.

Harden, Monique, and Natalie Walker. 2003. “What the Chemical Industry Fears.” Rachel’s News, #779, Oct. 2. http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=4

Harremoes, Poul, et al. 2002. The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century: Late Lessons from Early Warnings. London: Earthscan.

Harris, Jeffrey E. 1993. Deadly Choices: Coping With Health Risks in Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books.

Harris, John. 1992. Wonderwoman and Superman: The Ethics of Human Biotechnology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Harte, John, et al. 1992. Toxics A to Z: A Guide to Everyday Pollution Hazards. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Hayes, Tyrone, et al. 2002. ‘Feminization of Male Frogs in the Wild.” Nature, vol. 419, 895.

Healthfinder. Guide to Reliable Health Information. http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Health Research Group. http://www.citizen.org/hrg/index.cfm

Healthy Child Online. http://www.healthychild.com/

Hileman, Bette. 1995. "Views Differ Sharply over Benefits, Risks, of Agricultural Biotechnology." Chemical and Engineering News, August 21, 8.

Hilerman, Bette. 2003. “Children’s Health is Declining, Says American Chemical Society.” Rachel’s News, #764, March 6. http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=4

Hileman, Bette. 2003. “Environmental Chemicals.” Chemical and Engineering News, March 3, 33.

HIV/AIDS Information. http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/

Hively, Will. 2002. “Is Radiation Good for You? Or Dioxin? Or Arsenic?” Discover, vol. 23, no. 12.

Honari, M. and T. Boelyn. 1999. Health Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Human-Environment Interaction. New York: Routledge.

Hunter, Susan. 2003. Black Death: AIDS in Africa. New York: Macmillan (Palgrave)

INFORM. Developing Strategies to Reduce the Effects of Business Practices on the Environment and On Human Health. http://www.informinc.org/

International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA). http://www.icta.org/

International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC). http://www.iwhc.org/