toxicology

Identifies toxic chemicals and ingredients found in everyday products, offers tips on limiting exposure to them, and argues for citizen advocacy in the battle for a cleaner environment.

Examines how, over the last one hundred years, the pharmaceutical, chemical, and processed foods industries have created dozens of myths that are harming people's health and causing widespread illness and disease.

Explains how cigarettes, alcohol, solvents, ecstasy, marijuana, heroin, and cocaine harm the body and explains how to get help for an addiction problem or help a friend.

Describes biological hazards for general readers, covering human pathogens in water, food, and air; crop and livestock pathogens; venoms and toxins; and predators; and provides statistics, primary sources, and a bibliography.