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Introduction to Medical Geology

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Over two billion people live in tropical lands. Most of them live in intimate contact with the immediate geological environment, obtaining their food and water directly from it. The unique geochemistry of these tropical environments have a marked influence on their health, giving rise to diseases that affect millions of people. The origin of these diseases is geologic as exemplified by dental and skeletal fluorosis, iodine deficiency disorders, trace element imbalances to name a few. This book, one of the first of its kind, serves as an excellent introduction to the emerging discipline of Medical Geology.

List of contents

Introduction.- Geochemistry of the tropical environment.- Bioavailability of trace elements and risk assessment.- Medical geology of fluoride.- Iodine geochemistry and health.- Nitrates in the geochemical environment.- Medical geochemistry of arsenic.- Water hardness in relation to cardiovascular diseases and urinary stones.- Selenium - a new entrant to medical geology.- Geological basis of podoconiosis, geophagy and other diseases.- High natural radioactivity in some tropical lands - boon or bane?- Baseline geochemical data for medical geology in tropical environments.- References.- Index.

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Over two billion people live in tropical lands. Most of them live in intimate contact with the immediate geological environment, obtaining their food and water directly from it. The unique geochemistry of these tropical environments have a marked influence on their health, giving rise to diseases that affect millions of people. The origin of these diseases is geologic as exemplified by dental and skeletal fluorosis, iodine deficiency disorders, trace element imbalances to name a few. This book, one of the first of its kind, serves as an excellent introduction to the emerging discipline of Medical Geology.

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“... Der Band wendet sich gemäß dem Vorwort an Studierende und Forscher der Fachbereiche Geowissenschaften und Medizin, die an den Interaktionen der menschlichen Geosphäre interessiert sind, also an die, die sich damit beschäftigen, wie Bestandteile der menschlichen Geosphäre biologische Barrieren überwinden und in den menschlichen Körper eindringen. Dieses Werk wird als Grundlage eines jungen und aufstrebenden Wissenszweiges lange aktuell sein.“ (in: Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie Teil II, 2011, Issue 3/4, S. 468 f.)

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Aus den Rezensionen:
"... Der Band wendet sich gemäß dem Vorwort an Studierende und Forscher der Fachbereiche Geowissenschaften und Medizin, die an den Interaktionen der menschlichen Geosphäre interessiert sind, also an die, die sich damit beschäftigen, wie Bestandteile der menschlichen Geosphäre biologische Barrieren überwinden und in den menschlichen Körper eindringen. Dieses Werk wird als Grundlage eines jungen und aufstrebenden Wissenszweiges lange aktuell sein." (in: Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie Teil II, 2011, Issue 3/4, S. 468 f.)

Product details

Authors Rohana Chandrajith, C Dissanayake, C B Dissanayake, C. B. Dissanayake
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 26.07.2011
 
EAN 9783642101502
ISBN 978-3-642-10150-2
No. of pages 297
Weight 474 g
Illustrations XVIII, 297 p.
Series Erlangen Earth Conference Series
Erlangen Earth Conference Series
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology

C, Medicine, Medicine: general issues, geology, Earth and Environmental Science, Health Sciences, Medicine/Public Health, general, Earth Sciences

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