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[[Category:Arsenic to zoonoses]] | |||
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|authors=Jouko Tuomisto | |reference = | ||
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|authors = Jouko Tuomisto | |||
|page = Arsenic to Zoonoses | |||
|elsewhere = 100 kysymystä ympäristöstä ja terveydestä: arsenikista öljyyn. Kustannus Oy Duodecim, Helsinki 2005. ISBN 951-656-221-3 | |||
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'''Chapters in the book Arsenic to Zoonoses:''' | '''Chapters in the book [[Arsenic to zoonoses|Arsenic to Zoonoses]]:''' | ||
'''[[Perception of the risks around us]] | |||
* [[Is it the final straw that breaks the camel’s back?]] | |||
*[[Is expert jargon just a way to confuse the man in the street?]] | |||
*[[What is the wisdom in “It’s the dose that determines that a thing is not a poison”?]] | |||
*[[What is a “chemical” after all?]] | |||
*[[Is it more dangerous for us than for our ancestors?]] | |||
*[[Are the risks of the domestic and the workplace environments different?]] | |||
'''[[Is man defiled by what goes to his mouth?]] | |||
*[[What is safe to drink?]] | |||
*[[Does water chlorination cause cancer?]] | |||
*[[Are blue-green algae a risk to your life or at least to your liver?]] | |||
*[[Does aluminium cause dementia?]] | |||
*[[Arsenic in the drinking water – reminiscent of the movie “Lavender and old lace”?]] | |||
*[[Are we starting to glow from the uranium in our environment?]] | |||
*[[Fluoride – friend or foe?]] | |||
*[[Blind drunk – or dead drunk?]] | |||
*[[What is really dangerous in our diet?]] | |||
*[[Should we be concerned about the amounts of additives in our diet?]] | |||
*[[May even our cooking habits hurt us?]] | |||
*[[Why not re-freeze thawed out frozen food?]] | |||
*[[The dirty dozen – not just an old movie?]] | |||
*[[Where do the dioxins come from?]] | |||
*[[Are the dioxins the most dangerous chemicals in our environment?]] | |||
*[[Are the PCB compounds really super-poisons?]] | |||
*[[What on earth is PBDE?]] | |||
*[[What are the hormonal disrupters?]] | |||
*[[Tin poisoning – wasn’t even grandma’s copper kitchenware tin-plated?]] | |||
*[[Are heavy metals still a problem today?]] | |||
*[[Is mercury a quicksilver bullet or a slow poison?]] | |||
*[[If this kills insects, what effect is it having on me?]] | |||
*[[The whole field was brown-coloured; should you even go near it let alone eat anything growing there?]] | |||
*[[Should we only eat “organic” products?]] | |||
*[[Isn’t it safe to eat everything that grows naturally?]] | |||
*[[Is it safe to eat wherever it’s convenient?]] | |||
*[[What if alcohol were treated as a chemical contaminant in food?]] | |||
'''[[A favourite of children - and some adults too]] | |||
*[[Can even a child’s toy be dangerous?]] | |||
*[[How does the environment affect the child in the womb?]] | |||
*[[Is impregnated wood safe in my garden or children’s playground?]] | |||
*[[Can you catch toxoplasmosis from cat litter?]] | |||
*[[What are children’s waterproof clothes made of?]] | |||
*[[Are people too clean for their own good?]] | |||
*[[Are cosmetics chemicals?]] | |||
*[[Should we have antibiotic chemicals present in everyday domestic items?]] | |||
*[[How safe are detergents?]] | |||
*[[Can noise cause true health problems?]] | |||
*[[Is allergy more common today?]] | |||
*[[A healthy suntan – or is it?]] | |||
*[[Should solariums carry a health warning?]] | |||
'''[[The air that we breathe]] | |||
*[[What’s wrong with the air in our cities?]] | |||
*[[People don’t die of carbon monoxide poisoning any more – do they?]] | |||
*[[Can the air go up in flames?]] | |||
*[[Ozone – I thought it was the hole in the ozone layer that we need to worry about?]] | |||
*[[Should we go back to heating our homes with wood-burning stoves?]] | |||
*[[Climate change – will it affect our health?]] | |||
*[[Is formaldehyde another type of formalin?]] | |||
*[[Benzene – isn’t it only found in chemistry sets?]] | |||
*[[Can environmental cigarette smoke cause lung cancer?]] | |||
*[[Is there radiation in my home?]] | |||
*[[Do we need to monitor the quality of the air in our homes?]] | |||
*[[How can a building become sick?]] | |||
*[[Do our recreational pastimes require special ventilation systems?]] | |||
*[[Is asbestos still a problem today?]] | |||
*[[What happens when a building suffers moisture damage?]] | |||
*[[Legionnaires’ disease – why should I worry, I’m not in the Foreign Legion?]] | |||
*[[How do air fresheners really work?]] | |||
'''[[How to protect our common environment?]] | |||
*[[Why is it worth investing in environmental protection?]] | |||
*[[Indigenous populations live in harmony with their environment, don’t they?]] | |||
*[[Environmental equilibrium and chemicals – impossible or not?]] | |||
*[[Down the drain – is it a case of out of sight, out of mind?]] | |||
*[[Should we compost all our household waste?]] | |||
*[[Does it make sense to burn our domestic waste in power stations?]] | |||
*[[Is clean energy from biomass a myth?]] | |||
*[[Which type of energy production is friendliest to human health?]] | |||
*[[What was the impact of the Chernobyl disaster in Europe?]] | |||
*[[Is it safe to live close to polluted land?]] | |||
*[[Does environmental protection also mean improved health?]] | |||
*[[If we care about our environment, should we all be vegetarians?]] | |||
*[[Which environmental factors increase my blood pressure?]] | |||
'''[[Here a risk, there a risk, everywhere risks, risks!]] | |||
*[[Are there problems in the present risk assessment practices?]] | |||
*[[What is risk management?]] | |||
*[[What are the most common misconceptions about risks held by the man in the street?]] | |||
*[[Why are experts usually so sceptical?]] | |||
*[[Why do different people rate different risks so differently?]] | |||
*[[Can you lessen your own personal chemical burden?]] | |||
*[[Why are people afraid of dental amalgam?]] | |||
*[[What do we mean by the term “life cycle analysis”?]] | |||
*[[The precautionary principle – better safe than sorry?]] | |||
*[[Are GM foods Frankenfoods?]] | |||
*[[Mutagenesis, carcinogenesis and other scary words – what do they really mean?]] | |||
*[[Which type of radiation poses the greatest threat to our health?]] | |||
*[[Are most cancers caused by exposures to chemicals?]] | |||
*[[Is cancer more common today than it was in the past?]] | |||
*[[We breathe oxygen; it can’t be dangerous, can it?]] | |||
*[[Why are animal experiments still needed?]] | |||
*[[Are electric lines and transformers dangerous?]] | |||
*[[How dangerous is it to use a mobile phone?]] | |||
*[[We are surrounded by risks but which of them should we take seriously?]] | |||
*[[Are inhabitants of different countries exposed to different risks?]] | |||
*[[Before we go on holiday which environmental health precautions should we take?]] | |||
*[[Should risk assessment be more transparent?]] | |||
*[[Is environmental science just another religion?]] | |||
*[[What happens if the human race presses the self-destruct button?]] | |||
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