Depleted uranium : properties, uses, and health consequences
- Title
- Depleted uranium : properties, uses, and health consequences / edited by Alexandra C. Miller.
- Published by
- Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor&Francis, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- 268 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- "A compilation of published scientific information, including human, animal, cellular, and theoretical studies, Depleted Uranium: Properties, Uses and Health Consequences provides the most current and comprehensive collection of information on depleted uranium (DU) health hazards. The editor and her international panel of contributors are clinical and basic researchers at the forefront of toxicology, carcinogenesis, and human epidemiology. They review key findings on DU biological and health effects and comprehensively describe the research progress made during the last 11 years."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Depleted uranium biological effects : introduction and early in vitro and in vivo studies / David E. McClain and Alexandra C. Miller -- Ch. 2. Characteristics, biokinetics, and biological effects of depleted uranium used in weapons and the French nuclear industry / Valerie Chazel, Pascale Houpert and Francois Paquet -- Ch. 3. Carcinogenesis of depleted uranium : studies in animals / Fletcher F. Hahn -- Ch. 4. Neurotoxicology of depleted uranium in adult and developing rodents / Wayne Briner -- Ch. 5. Colorimetric determination of uranium / John F. Kalinich and David E. McClain -- Ch. 6. Chemical and histological assessment of depleted uranium in tissues and biological fluids / Todor I. Todorov, John W. Ejnik, Florabel G. Mullick and Jose A. Centeno -- Ch. 7. Exposure and health surveillance in gulf war veterans exposed to depleted uranium / Katherine S. Squibb and Melissa A. McDiarmid -- Ch. 8. Health hazards of depleted uranium munitions : estimates of exposures and risks in the gulf war, the Balkans, and Iraq / Brian G. Spratt -- Ch. 9. Canadian forces uranium testing program / Edward A. Ough -- Ch. 10. Biokinetics of uranium in the human body / R. W. Leggett -- Ch. 11. Application of ICRP biokinetic models to depleted uranium / M. R. Bailey and A. W. Phipps -- Ch. 12. Depleted uranium and radiological hazard during operations in Kosovo / Patrik Gerasimo, Pierre Laroche and Gerard Romet -- Ch. 13. United Nations environment programme results based on the three DU assessments in the Balkans and the joint IAEA/UNEP mission to Kuwait / Mario Burger and Henri Slotte.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.