Main description:

Toxicology Disasters: Cause and Consequences, a volume in the History of Toxicology and Environmental Health series, provides an historical overview of significant toxicological disasters which involved chemical exposure of humans, animals or the environment. The book documents the timeline of events and the legacy of the resulting exposure which occurred within a specific period of time, but with long lasting consequences. Case studies of toxicological incidents and a wide range of categories, including environmental, industrial, pharmaceutical, domestic and international are not only discussed from a historical perspective but also regarding their impacted toxicology, regulation and our current use of these chemicals.

The book will help toxicologists, academics and students from environmental health and toxicology departments, environmental/occupational health regulators, and industrial hygiene/safety personnel gain a better understanding of the arc of a toxicological disaster from its origins, root causes of the problem, and initial and long-term assessments and management.

Contents:

1. Disappearing Towns: Times Beach (MO), Chernobyl (Pripryat, USSR), Centralia (PA), Love Canal (NY)
2. Pharmaceuticals: Elixir Sulfanilamide, thalidomide, Te Genero, diethylstilbestrol
3. Industrial: Valley of the Drums, Seveso (Italy), Bhopal (India), Jilin chemical plant explosions (China)
4. Oil Spills: Torrey Canyon (England/France), Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon, East China Sea
5. Food: Ginger Jake and TOCP, Iraq- mercury, Melamine, Turkey X (mycotoxins), PBBs (Michigan), 2018 methanol in liquor (India), Yusho (Japan)
6. Water: Cuyahoga River, Bangladesh, Minamata (Japan & Canada), James River, Newtown Creek, Flint, Dunsmuir spill (Calif. 1991), Dams and storage tanks (eg. Brazil); Hexavalent chromium, Hudson River/PCBs, PFOAs (Hoosick Falls, etc.)
7. Radioactivity: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl/Fukishima, Atomic Homefront (St. Louis), Goiania (Brazil)
8. Mining: Tar Creek, Summitville, St. Lawrence (fluorspar), Sunshine Mine Disaster (Idaho), Itai-Itai Disease
9. Government (Military, DOE): Hanford, Cannon AFB (NM), Agent Orange
10. Air Pollution: Donora, London Killer Smog, Asian Brown Cloud
11. Dioxins: Agent Orange, Times Beach, Seveso, WTC, Irish pork crisis
12. Occupational: Phossy Jaw, Radium Girls
13. Terror, Malice, and Mayhem: Tokyo subway attack, Dubrovka Theater Siege, Tylenol murders