Environmental and Chemical Toxins and Psychiatric Illness
American Psychiatric Association Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-88048-954-6 (ISBN)
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Unlike related books, this remarkable reference is intended specifically for psychiatric applications and is thus the definitive sourcebook for the many professionals called on to respond to these events.
This work stands alone as the first on this topic to be written by a psychiatrist and the first to bring together the military, occupational, and environmental exposures causing psychiatric illness, including multiple chemical sensitivities, mass hysteria, radiation exposures, community stress reactions, and Gulf War and other syndromes.
Unique highlights include
• A summary of the reported psychiatric symptoms attributed to each chemical class (chemical weapons, pesticides, fumigants, metals, solvents, gases, PCBs, Agent Orange, and other miscellaneous chemicals) in tables for easy reference. We use personal care products, take prescription drugs, pump gasoline, drink alcohol, and spray insecticides as part of our everyday lives. Yet rarely do we realize that significant exposures to the chemicals described in this book—many of which we are exposed to in daily activities—can damage the central nervous system, causing psychiatric illness.
• A comprehensive bibliography, in every chapter, of all the important material in English-language medical journals and books that has appeared on this subject since the late 19th century. These bibliographies cover everything from the first published reports of the dangers of carbon disulfide in the French rubber industry—dangers that American medicine ignored for years—through more recent large-scale chemical exposures that have serious long-term consequences. (e.g., Love Canal).
• The latest information about terrorist and military uses of chemical weapons—of critical relevance in psychiatry today—from World War I combatants exposed to chlorine, phosgene, mustard gas, arsenic, and cyanide to the first organophosphate, or nerve, gases (such as tabun and sarin) developed by the Germans before and during World War II (and used by Iraq in the Gulf War and by a religious cult in the terrorist subway attacks in Tokyo and Matsumoto, Japan).
Quite simply, this book is a "must have" for psychiatric and medical professionals everywhere, with extended appeal among laypersons such as environmental/consumer advocates, attorneys, insurance professionals, industrial hygienists, disaster planners, and medical librarians.
James S. Brown Jr., M.D., is Director of the Mental Health Clinic at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.
Introduction
Part I: Military, Terrorist, and Disaster Incidents
Chapter 1. Military and terrorist incidents
Chapter 2. Community and individual stress reactions
Chapter 3. Ionizing radiation
Part II: Pesticides
Chapter 4. Insecticides
Chapter 5. Fumigants
Part III: Metals
Chapter 6. Aluminum
Chapter 7. Arsenic
Chapter 8. Lead
Chapter 9. Manganese
Chapter 10. Mercury
Chapter 11. Thallium
Chapter 12. Tin
Part IV: Solvents
Chapter 13. Solvents
Part V: Toxic Gases
Chapter 14. Carbon monoxide
Chapter 15. Hydrogen sulfide
Part VI: Other Chemicals and Syndromes
Chapter 16. Polybrominated biphenyls and polychlorinated biphenyls
Chapter 17. Miscellaneous elements, chemicals, and syndromes
Chapter 18. Sensitivity syndromes
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.4.2002 |
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Zusatzinfo | No |
Verlagsort | VA |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 558 g |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie |
ISBN-10 | 0-88048-954-5 / 0880489545 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-88048-954-6 / 9780880489546 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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