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Environmental Health Science
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M Lippmann, B S Cohen and R B Schlesinger (2nd edition; $65.00), 2003. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508374-1
There are few fields larger than environmental health science and to write an introductory and yet intellectually satisfying book dealing with this area is a challenge—but one that the present authors have met with distinction. This is the second edition of a text that has been a standard course book in the United States for two decades. The revised edition will, no doubt, attract the same popularity as its predecessor—indeed it deserves to be used in Europe as well as in the USA. The authors have set out to describe the major chemical and physical hazards found in the …