Author: Roy Burdon
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842772850
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Cancer kills one man out of every two, and one woman out of three, in the industrialized countries today. And its incidence, despite all efforts to the contrary, is increasing at one per cent a year. The fact is that some 80 per cent of cancers are likely to be due to environmental factors that could be reduced or even eradicated. This book explains how our genes work, and how they are adversely affected by the modern environment in which we live, whether in the North or the South. The factors include toxic industrial and agricultural chemicals, excessive sunlight ( a result of the hole in the ozone layer), nuclear radiation from power plants and the military, other forms of radiation (mobile phones, electricity transmission systems), food contaminants, atmospheric pollutants (tobacco smoke, car exhaust fumes), and the potential impact of genetic engineering. It explains how the body defends itself from external attack, what happens when these defences are overwhelmed, and the need for much more careful development of new technologies, industrial processes, products and foodstuffs.
The Suffering Gene
Author: Roy Burdon
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842772850
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Cancer kills one man out of every two, and one woman out of three, in the industrialized countries today. And its incidence, despite all efforts to the contrary, is increasing at one per cent a year. The fact is that some 80 per cent of cancers are likely to be due to environmental factors that could be reduced or even eradicated. This book explains how our genes work, and how they are adversely affected by the modern environment in which we live, whether in the North or the South. The factors include toxic industrial and agricultural chemicals, excessive sunlight ( a result of the hole in the ozone layer), nuclear radiation from power plants and the military, other forms of radiation (mobile phones, electricity transmission systems), food contaminants, atmospheric pollutants (tobacco smoke, car exhaust fumes), and the potential impact of genetic engineering. It explains how the body defends itself from external attack, what happens when these defences are overwhelmed, and the need for much more careful development of new technologies, industrial processes, products and foodstuffs.
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842772850
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Cancer kills one man out of every two, and one woman out of three, in the industrialized countries today. And its incidence, despite all efforts to the contrary, is increasing at one per cent a year. The fact is that some 80 per cent of cancers are likely to be due to environmental factors that could be reduced or even eradicated. This book explains how our genes work, and how they are adversely affected by the modern environment in which we live, whether in the North or the South. The factors include toxic industrial and agricultural chemicals, excessive sunlight ( a result of the hole in the ozone layer), nuclear radiation from power plants and the military, other forms of radiation (mobile phones, electricity transmission systems), food contaminants, atmospheric pollutants (tobacco smoke, car exhaust fumes), and the potential impact of genetic engineering. It explains how the body defends itself from external attack, what happens when these defences are overwhelmed, and the need for much more careful development of new technologies, industrial processes, products and foodstuffs.
The Suffering Gene
Author: Roy Hunter Burdon
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773526563
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Professor Roy Burdon has written this book to explain to the lay person what science now knows about how our genes are adversely affected by the modern environment in which we live. The irony is that these environmental adversities are mainly the result of the unintended consequences of the very industrial revolution and modern technologies which have transformed our lives in so many positive ways."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773526563
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Professor Roy Burdon has written this book to explain to the lay person what science now knows about how our genes are adversely affected by the modern environment in which we live. The irony is that these environmental adversities are mainly the result of the unintended consequences of the very industrial revolution and modern technologies which have transformed our lives in so many positive ways."--BOOK JACKET.
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Pages : 636
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Pages : 502
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The Life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston
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Languages : en
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Life and Adventures of Gen. W.A.C. Ryan, the Cuban Martyr
Author: John George Ryan
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Pages : 260
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Pages : 260
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Shaping Genes; Ethics, Law and Science of Using Genetic Technology in Medicine and Agriculture
Author: Macer, D. R. J.
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Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Pages : 444
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