Physiology, Environment, and Man

Based on a Symposium Conducted by the National Academy of Sciences–National Research Council, August, 1966

Douglas H. K. Lee, David Minard, Douglas H. K. Lee, David Minard

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780124406506
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483270043
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Physiology

Physiology, Environment, and Man is based on a symposium conducted by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, August 1966. While one might expect a textbook to present its field in organized and comprehensive fashion, a symposium necessarily follows more of an illustrative pattern, according to the personal interests or even idiosyncrasies of the participants. It is interesting to note that, in spite of these limitations, the presentations did in fact cover the range of physiological concerns with environmental effects, from the genetic to the temporal, and from the molecular to the holistic. The book opens with a discussion of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council's broad-based critical study of the physiological underpinning of current concepts of biological responses to toxic chemicals and physical stresses. Subsequent chapters deal with topics such as the metabolic fate of common environmental agents; growth and trophic factors in carcinogenesis; environmental factors in aging and mortality; adaptation to heat and cold; and the definition of an optimum environment.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Physiology, Environment, and Man
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Chapter 1. The Bretton Woods Symposium: Physiological Characterization of Health Hazards in Man's Environment
• Chapter 2. Flow of Environmental Agents in Reaching Their Site of Action
• Chapter 3. The Metabolic Fate of Common Environmental Agents
• Chapter 4. Accumulation of Environmental Agents or Their Effects in the Body
• Chapter 5. Interaction of Environmental Agents and Drugs
• Chapter 6. Difficulties in Extrapolating the Results of Toxicity Studies in Laboratory Animals to Man
• Chapter 7. Some Prospects in Toxicology
• Chapter 8. Effects of Environmental Agents at the Genome Level
• Chapter 9. Effects of Environmental Agents at the Level of Enzyme-Forming Systems
• Chapter 10. Effects of Environmental Agents at the Enzyme Levels— Air Pollutants
• Chapter 11. Growth and Trophic Factors in Carcinogenesis
• Chapter 12. The Mechanism of Some Structural Alterations of the Lung Caused by Environmental Stresses
• Chapter 13. Mechanism of Bronchial Response to Inhalants
• Chapter 14. Principles and General Concepts of Adaptation
• Chapter 15. Human Genetic Adaptation
• Chapter 16. Adaptive Cycles
• Chapter 17. Environmental Factors in Aging and Mortality
• Chapter 18. Ecologic and Ethnic Adaptations
• Chapter 19. Ecological Implications of Individuality in the Context of the Concept of Adaptive Strategy
• Chapter 20. Cross-Adaptation
• Chapter 21. Comments on Cross-Adaptation
• Chapter 22. Adaptation to Heat and Cold
• Chapter 23. Cardiac Disease in the Context of the Future Environment
• Chapter 24. Adaptation and Environmental Control
• Chapter 25. Review and Comment on "Waste Management and Contror"— A Report to the Federal Council for Science and Technology
• Chapter 26. How Is an Optimum Environment Defined?
• Index