pediatric toxicology

Describes how different types of pollution, such as noise, pesticides, and lead, affect the emotional, behavioral, and intellectual development in children, and examines the controversies that surround the effects of pollutants in children, and contains advice for minimizing exposure to pollutants.

The author, a biologist and cancer survivor, discusses a variety of elements involved in raising children, examining the hidden social, political, and historical forces behind these everyday things; and argues that the ongoing environmental crisis is essentially a crisis impacting family life.