Medical Geology of Africa
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※上記表示の販売価格は割引適用後の価格です 出版済み 3-5週間でお届けいたします。 A Research Primer Author: Davies, Theophilus Clavell (Research Professor (Medical Geology) at the Mangosuthu University of Technology in South Africa) Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 9780128187487 Cover: PAPERBACK Date: 2024年08月 DESCRIPTION “Medical Geology of Africa: A Research Primer” explores the connection between geological materials and processes and human health in Africa. A synopsis on current state of knowledge is given for a selection of some of the more critical issues in African Medical Geology. Gaps in knowledge are exposed, and directions are given for navigating the most recent bibliography of the more pressing Medical Geology issues by future researchers. Guidelines for researching gaps in knowledge are prescribed and are intended for researchers eager to make urgently needed contributions towards an understanding of how judicious exploitation of the interphase between geology and health can help unravel environmental disease causality, especially of those (diseases) of unknown aetiology (DUA) which are so widespread on the African Continent. TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I Some topical issues in medical geology of Africa: current knowledge and research gaps 1. General introduction 2. Project selection, proposal writing and reporting (dissertation or thesis) in medical geology 3. Geoenvironmental variables as causal co-factors of diseases of unknown aetiology in Africa 4. Environmental health impacts of geogenic source pollution in Africa 5. Combatting effects of ionising radiation exposure around uranium and gold mines in subsaharan Africa 6. Geophagic practices in Africa Part II An exposition of some geomedically important elements, with Africa case descriptions 7. Introduction 8. Medical geology of arsenic 9. Medical geology of fluorine 10. Medical geology of iodine 11. Medical geology of lead 12. Medical geology of manganese 13. Medical geology of mercury 14. Medical geology of selenium 15. Medical geology of zinc Part III Conclusion 16. General conclusion 17. Conclusion: medical geology in Africa - future perspectives and prospects
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