Readings for Miller, Sustaining the Earth, 8th Edition



Readings for Miller, Sustaining the Earth, 8th Edition

Chapter 11 Environmental Hazards and Human Health

About. Health Issues and the Environment.

Action on Smoking and Health. 1998. ASH Smoking and Health Review. Washington, D.C.: Action on Smoking and Health.

AIDS and HIV Information Source.

Allan, Stuart, ed. 2001. Environmental Risks and the Media. London: UCL Press.

Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics.

Amabile-Cuevas, Carlos F. 2003. “New Antibiotics and New Resistance.” American Scientist, vol.91, March-April, 138.

American Council on Science and Health. 1997. Cigarettes: What the Warning Label Doesn't Tell You. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus.

Ames, Bruce, et al. 1990. “Nature’s Chemicals and Synthetic Chemicals: Comparative Toxicology.” Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America, vol. 87, 7782.

Annenberg/CPB. Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth (Microbiological World). Video Series.

Ausbel, Kenny, and J.P. Harpignies. 2004. Ecological Medicine: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves. San Francisco, Calif.: Sierra Club Books.

Baggs, Sydney, and Joan C. Baggs. 1997. The Healthy House: Creating a Safe, Healthy, and Environmentally Friendly Home. New York: HarperCollins.

Baker-Laporte, Paula, et al. 2001. Prescriptions for a Healthy House: A Practical Guide for Architects, Builders, and Homeowners. Gabriola Island, B.C., Canada: New Society.

Barnett, Tony, and Alan Whiteside. 2003. AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Civilization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Barry, David. 2004. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. New York: Viking.

Bartecchi, Carl E., et al. 1995. "The Global Tobacco Epidemic." Scientific American, May, 44.

Bates, David V. 1995. Environmental Health Risks and Public Policy: Decision Making in Free Societies. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Bates, Roger. 1997. What Risk? Newton, Mass.: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Bazell, Robert. 2003. “Revolutionary War: How AIDS Treatment for Poor Countries Became Possible. Slate, Oct. 16.

Behrman, Greg. 2004. Voices of the Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic. New York: Free Press. Online interview with author at

Berkson, D. Lindsey. 2001. Hormone Deception: How Everyday Foods and Products Are Disrupting Your Hormones. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Bernarde, Melvin A. 1989. Our Precarious Habitat: Fifteen Years Later. New York: Wiley.

Best, Joel. 2001. Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers From the Media, Politicians, and Activists. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Best, Joel. 2004. More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Blaustein, Andrew R., and P.T.T. Johnson. 2003. "Explaining Frog Deformities." Scientific American, vol. 288, no. 2, 60.

Blumenthal, Daniel S., and James Ruttenberg, eds. 1995. Introduction to Environmental Health. 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Bogo, Jennifer. 2001. "Children at Risk." E Magazine, September/October, 27.

Boyce, Nell. 2004. “Is There a Tonic in the Toxin? (Hormesis). U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 18, p. 74.

Brain, Marshall. How Your Immune System Works.

Briggs, Shirley A. 2002. Basic Guide to Pesticides: Their Characteristics and Hazards. Silver Spring, Md.: Rachel Carson Council.

Brown, Paul. 2004. “Mad-Cow Disease in Cattle and Human Beings.” American Scientist, vol. 92, 334.

Budiansky, Stephen. 2002. “Creatures of Our Own Making.” Science, vol. 298, 80.

Burdon, Roy. 2003. The Suffering Gene: Environmental Threats to Our Health. . Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed.

Byrnes, Mark E., et al. 2003. Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Terrorism: Emergency Response and Public Protection. Boca Raton, Fla.: Lewis.

Cadbury, Deborah. 1999. Altering Eden: The Feminization of Nature. New York: St. Martin's.

Calabrese, E. J., and L. A. Baldwin. 2003. “Toxicology Rethinks Its Central Belief.” Nature, vol. 421, 691.

Calow, Peter. 1997. Controlling Environmental Risks from Chemicals: Principles and Practice. New York: Wiley.

Canada’s National Occupational Health & Safety Resource (CCOHS). Chemicals and Materials.

Casper, Monica J., ed. 2003. Synthetic Planet: Chemicals Politics, and the Hazards of Modern Life. New York: Routledge.

Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities. Environment and Hormones.

Center for Ethics and Toxics (CETOS).

Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ).

Center for Science in the Public Interest. Antibiotic Resistance Project.

Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Health, Nutrition, and Diet.

Children’s Environmental Health Network.

Children’s Health.

Chiles, James R. 2001. Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology. New York: HarperBusiness.

Chivian, Eric, et al. 1993. Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Cohen, Mark N. 1989. Health and the Rise of Civilization. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.

Colborn, Theo, et al. 1996. Our Stolen Future. New York: Dutton. Website:

Collman, James P. 2001. Naturally Dangerous: Surprising Facts About Food, Health and the Environment. New York: University Science Books.

Commoner, Barry. 2002. “Unraveling the DNA Myth.” Harper’s Magazine, February, 39.

Consumers Union. Food Safety Issues.

Consumers Union. Risk Assessment.

Consumers Union. Stop Hospital Infections.

Coogan, Patricia, and Terry Greene. 1992. Environment and Health: How to Investigate Community Health Problems. Boston, Mass.: JSI Center for Environmental Health Studies.

Council on Foreign Relations. 2002. Terrorism: Questions and Answers: Responding to Biological Attacks.

Council on Foreign Relations. 2002. Terrorism: Questions and Answers: Responding to Chemical Attacks.

Couzin, Jennifer. 2003. “Sipping From a Poisoned Chalice.” Science, vol. 302, 376.

Dadd-Redalla, Debra. 1994. Sustaining the Earth: Choosing Consumer Products That Are Environmentally Safe for You. New York: Hearst Books.

Daniel, Thomas M. 1999. Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis. Rochester, N. Y.: University of Rochester Press.

Daszak, P., et al. 2000, Emerging Infectious Disease of Wildlife—Threats to Biodiversity and Human Health.” Science, vol. 287, 443.

Davies, Clarence, ed. 1996. Comparing Environmental Risks: Tools for Setting Government Guidelines. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future.

Davies, Pete. 2000. Devil’s Flu: The World’s Deadliest Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused It. New York: Owl.

Davis, Derva. 2002. When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution. New York: Basic Books.

Dernbach, John C., ed. 2002. Stumbling Toward Sustainability. Washington, D.C.: Environmental Law Institute.

Desalle, Rob. 1999. Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease. New York: Norton.

de Souza, Roger-Mark, et al. 2003. “Critical Links: Population, Health, and the Environment.” Population Bulletin, vol. 58, no. 3, 1-42.

Desowitz, Robert S. 1993. The Malaria Capers: More Tales of Parasites and People, Research and Reality. New York: Norton.

Desowitz, Robert S. 1997. Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World. New York: Norton.

Diamond, Jared. 1999. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton.

Dixon, Bernard. 1994. Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World. San Francisco, Calif.: W.H. Freeman.

Donnelly, C.A., et al. 2003. “Epidemiological Determinants of Spread of Causal Agent of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong.” Lancet, vol. 361, 111.

Dormandy, Thomas. 2001. The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis. London: Hambledon & London.

Drlica, Karl L. 1996. Double-Edged Sword: The Promises and Risks of the Genetic Revolution. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.

Earth Justice. Health and Communities.

Ecologist Magazine: Rethinking Basic Assumptions.

Eco-Portal—The Environmental Sustainability Info Source. Toxics.

Emsley, John. 1994. The Consumers' Good Chemical Guide: A Jargon-Free Guide to the Chemicals of Everyday Life. New York: W.H. Freeman.

Emergency Bioterrorism Kit.

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals.

EngenderHealth: Improving Women’s Health Worldwide.

Enserink, Martin. 2002. “West Nile’s Surprisingly Swift Continental Sweep.” Science, vol. 297, 1988.

Enserink. Martin. 2003. “For Precarious Populations, Pollutants Present New Perils.” Science, vol. 299, 1642.

Envirolink: The Online Environmental Community: Human Health.

Envirolink: The Online Environmental Community: Pollution Prevention.

Environment California, Toxics and Environmental Health Program. 2004. Growing Up Toxic: Chemical Exposures and Increases in Developmental Disease. June.

Environmental Defense. Toxic Chemical Pollution Scorecard In Local Communities.

Environmental Media Services. Reporters’ Guide to Endocrine Disruptors.

Environmental Media Services. Reporters’ Guide to Malaria.

Environmental Media Services. Reporters’ Guide to Male Reproductive.

Environmental Media Services. Reporters’ Guide to PCBs.

Environmental Media Services. Reporters’ Guide to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS).

Environmental Media Services. Reporters’ Guide to West Nile Virus.

Environmental Research Foundation. Rachel’s Environment & Health News.

Environmental Research Foundation. 1998. “Children’s Cancer and Pesticides.” Rachel’s Environment & Health Weekly, #588, Mar. 5.

Ewald, Paul W. 1993. "The Evolution of Virulence." Scientific American, vol. 268, no. 4, 56.

Eyles, John, and Nicole Consitt. 2004. “What’s at Risk? Environmental Influences on Human Health.” Environment, vol. 46, no. 8, 25.

Finkel, Adam M. 1996. "Who's Exaggerating?" Discover, May, 48.

Finkel, Adam M., and Dominic Golding. 1994. Worst Things First? The Debate Over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future.

Fisher, Jeffrey A. 1994. The Plague Makers: How We Are Creating Catastrophic New Epidemics and What We Must Do to Avert Them. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Foster, Kenneth R., et al. 1994. Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Foundation of Bacteria. Museum of Bacteria.

Fox, Michael W. 1992. Superpigs and Wondercorn: The Brave New World of Biotechnology and Where It All May Lead. New York: Lyons & Burford.

Fox, Nicols. 1997. Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain Gone Haywire. New York: Basic Books.

Francis, B. M. 1994. Toxic Substances in the Environment. New York: Wiley.

Freedman, B. 1994. Environmental Ecology. New York: Academic.

Freeze, R. Allan. 2000. The Environmental Pendulum: A Quest for Truth About Toxic Chemicals, Human Health, and the Environment. Berkeley: University of California Press.

French, David. 2003. “Health News Can Be Hazardous to Your Health.” AlterNet. Feb. 6.

Freudenburg, William R. 1988. "Perceived Risk, Real Risk: Social Science and the Art of Probabilistic Risk Assessment." Science, vol. 242, 44.

Freudenrich, Craig C. How Mosquitoes Work.

Freudenthal, Ralph I., and Susan L. Freudenthal. 1989. What You Need to Know to Live with Chemicals. Greens Farms, Conn.: Hill & Garnett.

Gandy, Matthew, and Alimuddin Zumla. 2003. The Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the ‘New’ Tuberculosis. New York: Verso.

Garrett, Laurie. 1995. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. New York: Penguin.

Garrett, Laurie. 2000. Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. New York: Hyperion.

Gelb, Michael H., and Wim G. J. Hol. 2002. “Drugs to Combat Tropical Protozoan Parasites.” Science, vol. 297, 343.

Gigerenzer, Gerd. 2002. Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Gilbert, Steven G. 2004. A Small Dose of Toxicology: The Health Effects of Common Chemical. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC.

Gillis, Anna Maria. 1993. "Toxicity Tests Minus Animals?" BioScience, vol. 43, no. 3, 137.

Glendinning, Chellis. 1987. When Technology Wounds: The Human Consequences of Progress. New York: Morrow.

Goklany, Indur M. 2001. The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute.

Goldberg, Rebecca. 2004. Environmental Contributions to Antibiotic Disease.

Goldman, Benjamin. 1991. The Truth About Where You Live. New York: Times Books.

Goldstein, Inge F., and Martin Goldstein. 2002 How Much Risk? A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards. New York: Oxford University Press.

Goodman, Maurice H. 2003. Basic Medical Endocrinology. 3rd ed. New York: Raven.

Gourevitch, Alexander. 2003. “Should the DDT Ban Be Lifted?” AlterNet, Apr. 9.

Graham, John D., and Jonathan B. Weiner, eds. 1995. Risk vs. Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Greek, C. Ray, and Jean S. Greek. 2000. Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experimentation on Animals. New York: Continuum.

Guillemin, Jeanne, 2004. Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism. New York: Columbia University Press.

Guillette, Louis J., Jr., et al. 2000. “Alligators and Endocrine Disrupting Contaminants: A Current Perspective.” American Zoologist, vol. 40, 438.

Harden, Monique, and Natalie Walker. 2003. “What the Chemical Industry Fears.” Rachel’s News, #779, Oct. 2.

Harremoes, Poul, et al. 2002. The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century: Late Lessons from Early Warnings. London: Earthscan.

Harris, Jeffrey E. 1993. Deadly Choices: Coping With Health Risks in Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books.

Harris, John. 1992. Wonderwoman and Superman: The Ethics of Human Biotechnology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Harte, John, et al. 1992. Toxics A to Z: A Guide to Everyday Pollution Hazards. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Hayes, Tyrone, et al. 2002. ‘Feminization of Male Frogs in the Wild.” Nature, vol. 419, 895.

Healthfinder. Guide to Reliable Health Information.

Health Research Group.

Healthy Child Online.

Hileman, Bette. 1995. "Views Differ Sharply over Benefits, Risks, of Agricultural Biotechnology." Chemical and Engineering News, August 21, 8.

Hilerman, Bette. 2003. “Children’s Health is Declining, Says American Chemical Society.” Rachel’s News, #764, March 6.

Hileman, Bette. 2003. “Environmental Chemicals.” Chemical and Engineering News, March 3, 33.

HIV/AIDS Information.

Hively, Will. 2002. “Is Radiation Good for You? Or Dioxin? Or Arsenic?” Discover, vol. 23, no. 12.

Honari, M. and T. Boelyn. 1999. Health Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Human-Environment Interaction. New York: Routledge.

Hunter, Susan. 2003. Black Death: AIDS in Africa. New York: Macmillan (Palgrave)

INFORM. Developing Strategies to Reduce the Effects of Business Practices on the Environment and On Human Health.

International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA).

International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC).

Irwin, Alexander, and Joyce Millen. 2002. Global AIDS: Myths and Facts, Tools for Fighting the AIDS Pandemic. New York: Cambridge, Mass.: South End.

Jaffe, Harold. 2004. “Whatever Happened to the U.S. AIDS Epidemic.” Science, vol. 305, 1243.

Jha, Prabhat, et al. 2002. “Improving the Health of the Poor.” Science, vol. 295, 2036.

Jonietz, Erika. 2004. “Sweet Hope for a Malaria Vaccine.” Technology Review, April, 62.

Kaiser, Jocelyn. 2003. “How Much Are Human Lives and Health Worth?” Science, vol. 299, 1836.

Kamarin, M. A. 1988. Toxicology: A Primer on Toxicology Principles and Applications. Boca Raton, Fla.: Lewis.

Kammen, Daniel M., and David M. Hassenzahl. 2001. Should We Risk It? Exploring Environmental Health and Technological Problem Solving. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Karlen, Arno. 1999. Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Kiesecker, Joesph M., et al. 2004. “Amphibian Decline and Emerging Disease.” American Scientist, vol. 92, 138.

Kimbrell, Andrew. 1993. The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life. New York: Harper.

Kinley, David H., and Zabed Hoassin. 2003. “Poisoned Waters: Bangladesh, Desperately Seeking Solutions. World Watch, January/February, 22.

Kitcher, Philip. 1996. The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Kitcher, Philip. 2004. “Responsible Biology.” BioScience, vol. 54, no. 4, 331.

Klaassen, Curtis D., et al. 2001. Cassarett and Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Kluger, Richard. 1997. Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris. New York: Vintage.

Knudson, Mary. 1998. "The Hunt Is On for New Ways to Overcome Bacterial Resistance." Technology Review, January/February, 22.

Kolata, Gina. 2001. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic. New York: Touchstone.

Koneman, Elmer W. 2002. The Other End of the Microscope: the Bacteria Tell Their Own Story. Herndon, Va.: ASM Press.

Koop. C. Everett, et al. 2002. Critical Issues in Global Health. New York: Jossey-Bass.

Krantz, Les. 1993. What the Odds Are. New York: HarperPerennial.

Krasner, Robert I. 2002. The Microbial Challenge: Human-Microbe Interactions. Herndon, Va.: ASM Press.

Krimsky, Sheldon. 2001. "Hormone Disruptors: A Clue to Understanding the Environmental Causes." Environment, vol. 43, no.5, 23.

Krimsky, Sheldon. 2002. Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Lamptey, Peter, et. al. 2002. Facing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic. Washington D.C.: Population Reference Bureau.

Landis, Wayne G., and Ming-Ho Yu. 1998. An Introduction to Environmental Toxicology. Boca Raton, Fla.: Lewis.

Landrigan, Phillip, et al. 2002. Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World: 101 Smart Solutions for Every Family. Emmaus, Penn.: Rodale.

Lappé, Marc. 1995. The Evolving Threat of Drug-Resistant Disease. San Francisco, Calif.: Sierra Club Books.

Laudan, Larry. 1997. Danger Ahead: The Risks You Really Face on Life's Highway. New York: Wiley.

Lawson, Lynn. 1993. Staying Well in a Toxic World: Understanding Environmental Illness, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Chemical Injuries, and Sick Building Syndrome. Chicago: Noble.

Leiss, William. 2001. In the Chamber of Risks: Understanding Risk Controversies. Toronto, Canada: McGill-Queens University Press.

Levy, Stuart B. 1998. "The Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance." Scientific American, March, 46.

Lîfstedt, Ragnar E., and Lynn Frewer. 1998. The Earthscan Reader in Risk and Modern Society. London: Earthscan.

Lightman, Alan, et al., eds. 2003. Living With the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery. Washington, D.C.: Island.

Loder, Natasha. 2000. “Royal Society Warns on Hormone Disrupters.” Nature, vol. 406, 4.

Louvar, Joseph. 1997. Health and Environmental Risk Analysis. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.

Malaria Foundation International.

Markowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner. 2002. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution. Berkley: University of California Press.

Massey, Rachel. 2000. “Children in Harms Way.” Rachel’s News, #712, Nov. 23.

Massey, Rachel. 2001. “Biotech: The Basics—Part 1.” Rachel’s News, #716, Jan. 18.

Massey, Rachel. 2001. “Biotech: The Basics—Part 2.” Rachel’s News, #717, Feb. 1.

Massey, Rachel. 2001. “Biotech: The Basics—Part 3.” Rachel’s News, #718, Feb. 15.

Massey, Rachel. 2001. “Biotech: The Basics—Final Part.” Rachel’s News, #719, Mar. 1.

Mayo, Deborah G., and Rachelle D. Hollander, eds. 1992. Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management. New York: Oxford University Press.

Mayo Health Clinic. Reliable Information for a Healthier Life.

McCally, Michael, ed. 2002. Life Support: The Environment and Human Health. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT.

McGinn, Anne Platt. 2000. Why Poison Ourselves? A Precautionary Approach to Synthetic Chemicals. Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute.

McGinn, Anne Platt. 2002. “Malaria, Mosquitoes, and DDT.” Worldwatch, May/June, 10.

McGinn, Anne Platt. 2003. “Combating Malaria.” In Worldwatch Insititute, State of the World 2003, New York: Norton, p. 62.

McKibben, Bill. 2003. Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. New York: Times Books.

McNeil, Donald D., Jr. 2004. “Around the World, Drug-Resistant TB is Rampant.” New York Times. March 16.

Merrell, Paul, and Carol Van Strum. 1990. "Negligible Risk or Premeditated Murder?" Journal of Pesticide Reform, vol. 10, Spring, 20.

Meyers, John Peterson. 2003. “From Silent Spring to Scientific Revolution.” Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, Spring, 17.

Michigan State University. Microbe Zoo.

Milius, Susan. 2003. “After West Nile Virus: What Will it Do to Birds and Beasts of North America?” Science News, vol. 163, 203.

Miller, Judith, et al. 2001. Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Miller, Robert V. 1998. "Bacterial Gene Swapping in Nature." Scientific American, January, 67.

Milloy, Steven. 2001. Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares & Scams. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute.

Moeller, Dade W. 2004. Environmental Health. 3rd. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Montague, Peter, ed. Rachel's News. (P.O. Box 5036, Annapolis, MD 21403-7036). (A two-page newsletter explaining health, risk, and environmental issues in an easily understandable manner.)

Montague, Peter. 1999. “Clean Production—Part 1.” Rachel’s News, #650, May 13.

Montague, Peter. 1999. “Clean Production—Part 2.” Rachel’s News, #650, May 20.

Montague, Peter. 1999. “The Uses of Scientific Uncertainty.” Rachel’s News, #657, July 1.

Montague, Peter. 1999. “The Waning Days of Risk Assessment.” Rachel’s News, #652, May 27.

Montague, Peter. 2000. “Here We Go Again.” Rachel’s News, #708, Sept. 14.

Montague, Peter. 2000. “Hidden Costs of Animal Factories.” Rachel’s News, #690, Mar. 9.

Montague, Peter. 2000. “Modern Environmental Protection—Part 1.” Rachel’s News, #704, July 21.

Montague, Peter. 2000. “Modern Environmental Protection—Part 2.” Rachel’s News, #705, Aug. 3.

Montague, Peter. 2000. “Modern Environmental Protection—Part 3.” Rachel’s News, #706, Aug. 17.

Montague, Peter. 2000. “Modern Environmental Protection—Part 4.” Rachel’s News, #707, Sept. 7.

Montague, Peter. 2001. “Here We Go Again: PBDEs.” Rachel’s News, #736, Oct. 25.

Montague, Peter. 2001. “What Causes Breast Cancer?” Rachel’s News, #723, Apr. 26.

Montague, Peter. 2002. “Paracelsus Revisited.” Rachel’s News, #778, Oct. 17.

Montague, Peter. 2002. “Latest Hormone Science—Part 1.” Rachel’s News, #750, Aug. 22.

Montague, Peter. 2002. “Latest Hormone Science—Part 2.” Rachel’s News, #751, Sept. 5.

Montague, Peter. 2002. “Latest Hormone Science—Part 3.” Rachel’s News, #752, Sept. 19.

Montague, Peter. 2002. “Latest Hormone Science, Part 4; Disrupting Life’s Messages” Rachel’s News, #753, Oct. 3.

Montague, Peter. 2002. “The Year of Precautionary Action.” Rachel’s News, #778, Nov. 14.

Montague, Peter. 2003. “Corporate Campaign Against Precaution.” Rachel’s News, #778, Oct. 9.

Montague, Peter. 2003. “Prenatal Exposures and Disease.” Rachel’s News, #769, May 15.

Montague, Peter. 2003. “San Francisco Adopts Precautionary Principle.” Rachel’s News, #765, March 20.

Montague, Peter. 2004. “Answering the Critics of Precaution, Part 2.” Rachel’s News, #790, April 4.

Montague, Peter. 2004. “The Chemical Wars, Part 1.” Rachel’s News, #798, Aug. 5.

Montague, Peter. 2004. “The Chemical Wars, Part 2.” Rachel’s News, #799, Sept. 2.

Montague, Peter. 2004. “The Chemical Wars, Part 3.” Rachel’s News, #800, Sept. 16.

Montague, Peter. 2004. “Fourteen Reasons for Precaution.” Rachel’s News, #791, May 13.

Montague, Peter. 2004. “Report from Europe: Precaution Ascending.” Rachel’s News, #786, Mar. 4.

Moore, Colleen F. 2003. Silent Scourge: Children, Pollution, and Why Scientists Disagree. New York: Oxford University Press.

Moore, Gary S. 2002. Living with the Earth: Concepts in Environmental Health Science. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, Fla.: Lewis.

Morgan, M. Granger. 1993. "Risk Analysis and Management." Scientific American, July, 32.

Morgan, Monroe T. 2002. Environmental Health, 3rd ed. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth.

Moriarty, Frank. 1999. Ecotoxicology: The Study of Pollutants in Ecosystems. 3rd ed. New York: Academic.

Morris, Julian. 2000. Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle. Newton, Mass.: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Morrone, Michelle and Timothy W. Lohner. 2002. Sound Science, Junk Policy: Environmental Health Science and the Decision-Making Process. Westport, Conn.: Auburn House.

Motavalli, Jim. 1998. "The Trouble with Meat: Dangerous Diseases Emerge in a Planet Eating High on the Food Chain." E Magazine, May/June, 29.

MSN. WebMD. 2003. SARS: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

MSNBC. 2004. “AIDs in America.”.

MSNBC. 2004. “Answers to Your HIV/AIDS FAQs.”

Multiple Chemical Sensitivities.

Myers, John P. 2002. “From Silent Spring to Scientific Revolution—Part 1.” Rachel’s News, #757, Nov. 28.

Myers, John P. 2002. “From Silent Spring to Scientific Revolution—Part 2.” Rachel’s News, #758, Dec. 12.

Myers, Norman. 1997. "Development, Environment, and Health." Environment and Development Economics, vol. 2, no. 1, 367.

Nadakavukaren, Anne. 2000. Our Global Environment: A Health Perspective. 5th ed. New York: Waveland.

National Academy of Sciences: Environmental Issues.

National Academy of Sciences. Responding to Bioterrorism.

National Academy of Sciences. 1992. Eat for Life: The Food and Nutrition Board's Guide to Reducing Your Risk of Chronic Disease. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.

National Academy of Sciences. 1996. Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.

National Academy of Sciences. 1999. Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.

National Academy of Sciences. 1999. To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.

National Academy of Sciences. 2003. Countering Agricultural Bioterrorism. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.

National Atlas of the United States. West Nile Virus Maps.

National Biological Information Infrastructure. West Nile Virus.

National Cancer Institute. Cancer Statistics.

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

National Consumers League.

National Environmental Trust (NET). Environmental Health.

National Institutes of Health (NIH).

National Toxicology Program.

Neese, Randolph M., and George C. Williams. 1996. Why We Get Sick. New York: Vintage.

Nestle, Marion. 2002. The Hunger for Profit. Berkley: University of California Press.

Nestle, Marion. 2003. Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism. Berkeley: University of California Press.

New Ecologist.

Norris, David O., et al. 2004. Endocrine Disrupters: Biological Basis for Effects in Wildlife and Humans. New York: Oxford University Press.

O'Brien, Mary. 2000. Making Better Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Occupational Health & Safety. Cancer Hazards for Major Chemicals.

Oldstone, Michael A. B. 2000. Viruses, Plagues, and History. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ottoboni, M. Alice. 1991. The Dose Makes the Poison: A Plain-Language Guide to Toxicology. 2d ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

PBS. Plague War: A Report on the Biological Weapons Report.

PBS Online. 1998. Nuclear Phobia Survey.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Pesticides as Endocrine Disruptors.

Phillips, Dan. 2003. Designs for a Healthy Home: An Eco-Friendly Approach. York Beach, Maine: Conari Press.

Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Piller, Charles. 1991. The Fail-Safe Society. New York: Basic Books.

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