Why the Dose Matters: Assessing the Health Risk of Exposure to Toxicants
About this ebook
Why the Dose Matters: Assessing the Health Risk of Exposure to Toxicants uses a rational, science-based approach to explain in plain language that a quantitative view is key for understanding and predicting potentially toxic effects of chemicals.
Key Features:
- Explains the basics of toxicology in easily understandable terms.
- Includes numerous examples.
- Clears up common misconceptions and dispels myths.
- Provides take-home messages for each chapter.
This book is aimed at interested laypeople. It uses numerous examples to illustrate the basic concepts and ensure that the reader will get a better understanding of why not only the hazard but also the overall exposure will determine whether some chemicals pose a serious risk while others are of little or negligible concern.
About the author
Urs A. Boelsterli, Ph.D., FAASLD, is an Emeritus Professor of Toxicology at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, where he also held the first Boehringer-Ingelheim Endowed Chair in Mechanistic Toxicology. Prior to this, he was head of the Toxicology Program at the National University of Singapore and ran a research lab at Roche, Basel, Switzerland, and the ETH in Zurich. He is retired and currently lives in Switzerland with his family.
