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Environmental Medicine: Integrating a Missing Element into Medical Education (1995)
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Environmental Medicine: Integrating a Missing Element into Medical Education
Computer Databases

Computer databases dedicated to reproductive and developmental hazards

REPROTOX

Contact: Greta Ober

Reproductive Toxicology Center

Columbia Hospital for Women Medical Center

2425 L Street, NW

Washington, DC 20037

(202) 293–5137

TERIS

Contact: Janine E.Polifka, Ph.D.

Teratogen Information System (includes Shepard’s Catalog of Teratogenic Agents)

Department of Pediatrics, TRIS WJ-10

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98195

REPRORISK

Contact: Betty Dabney, Ph.D.

Micromedex, Inc.

600 Grant Street

Denver, CO 80203–3527

(303) 831–1400

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Front Matter (R1-R12)
Executive Summary (1-4)
1 Introduction (5-13)
2 Curriculum Content (14-21)
3 Implementation Strategies (22-43)
4 Changing Medical Education (44-51)
5 Concluding Remarks (52-53)
References (54-58)
Appendixes (59-60)
A: Taking an Exposure History (61-96)
B: Medical School Courses and Clerkships: Access Points for Integrating Environmental Medicine (97-120)
C: Case Studies in Environmental Medicine (121-138)
Case Study 1: Arsenic Toxicity (139-163)
Case Study 2: Seasonal Arsenic Exposure from Burning Chromium-Copper-Arsenate-Treated Wood (164-167)
Case Study 3: Asbestos Toxicity (168-188)
Case Study 4: Benzene Toxicity (189-207)
Case Study 5: Beryllium Toxicity (208-223)
Case Study 6: Cadmium Toxicity (224-243)
Case Study 7: Fetal Death Due to Nonlethal Maternal Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (244-248)
Case Study 8: Carbon Tetrachloride Toxicity (249-266)
Case Study 9: Chlordane Toxicity (267-288)
Case Study 10: Chronic Reactive Airway Disease Following Acute Chlorine Gas Exposure in an Asymptomatic Atopic Patient (289-290)
Case Study 11: Chromium Toxicity (291-311)
Case Study 12: Cyanide Toxicity (312-331)
Case Study 13: Dioxin Toxicity (332-348)
Case Study 14: Ethylene/Propylene Glycol Toxicity (349-371)
Case Study 15: Formalin Asthma in Hospital Staff (372-373)
Case Study 16: Gasoline Toxicity (374-394)
Case Study 17: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: A Clinical Description of 17 Patients with a Newly Recognized Disease (395-401)
Case Study 18: Lead Poisoning from Mobilization of Bone Stores During Thyrotoxicosis (402-409)
Case Study 19: Lead Toxicity (410-435)
Case Study 20: Legionaires' Disease: Description of an Epidemic of Pneumonia (436-444)
Case Study 21: Mercury in House Paint as a Cause of Acrodynia: Effect of Therapy with N-Acetyl-D, L-Penixillamine (445-449)
Case Study 22: Mercury Toxicity (450-472)
Case Study 23: Methanol Toxicity (473-492)
Case Study 24: Methylene Chloride Toxicity (493-511)
Case Study 25: Paint Remover Hazard (512-515)
Case Study 26: Fatal Outcome of Methemoglobinemia in an Infant (516-517)
Case Study 27: Nitrate/Nitrite Toxicity (518-537)
Case Study 28: An Outbreak of Nitrogen Dioxide-Induced Respiratory Illness Among Ice Hockey Players (538-541)
Case Study 29: Pentachlorophenol Toxicity (542-557)
Case Study 30: Aldicarb Poisoning: A Case Report with Prolonged Cholinesterase Inhibition and Improvement After Pralidoxime Therapy (558-561)
Case Study 31: Cholinesterase-Inhibiting Pesticide Toxicity (562-584)
Case Study 32: Infertility in Male Pesticide Workers (585-587)
Case Study 33: Pesticide Food Poisoning from Contaminated Watermelons in California, 1985 (588-595)
Case Study 34: Poisoning of an Urban Family Due to Misapplication of Household Organophosphate and Carbamate Pesticides (596-604)
Case Study 35: Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Toxicity (605-621)
Case Study 36: Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Toxicity (622-638)
Case Study 37: Ionizing Radiation (639-673)
Case Study 38: Radon Toxicity (674-694)
Case Study 39: Residential Radon Exposure and Lung Cancer in Sweden (695-700)
Case Study 40: Community Oubreaks of Asthma Associated with Inhalation of Soybean Dust (701-706)
Case Study 41: Tetrachloroethylene Toxicity (707-726)
Case Study 42: Toluene Toxicity (727-743)
Case Study 43: Occupational Asthma Due to Toluene Diisocyanate Among Velcro-like Tape Manufacturers (744-749)
Case Study 44: 1,1,1-Trichloroethane (750-766)
Case Study 45: Trimethyltin Encephalopathy (767-771)
Case Study 46: Trichloroethylene Toxicity (772-792)
Case Study 47: Vinyl Chloride Toxicity (793-811)
Case Study 48: Work-Related Disorders of the Neck and Upper Extremity (812-813)
Case Study 49: Contact Dermatitis in Surgeons from Methylmethacrylate Bone Cement (814-816)
Case Study 50: Skin Lesions and Environmental Exposures: Rash Decisions (817-861)
Case Study 51: Acoustic Trauma Caused by the Telephone: A Report of Two Cases (862-867)
Case Study 52: Behavioral and Audiologic Manifestations of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (868-871)
Case Study 53: Reproductive and Developmental Hazards (872-892)
Case Study 54: Childhood Asthma and Indoor Enviromental Risk Factors (893-903)
Case Study 55: Populations at Risk From Particulate Air Pollution - United States, 1992 (904-908)
D: Resources: Agencies, Organizations, Services, REferences, and Tables of Environmental Health Hazards (909-970)
E: Committee and Staff Biographies (971-975)