The Suffering Gene

Environmental Threats to Our Health

Roy Burdon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2003
David Philip Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-86486-627-1 (ISBN)

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Cancer kills one man out of every two, and one woman out of three, in the industrialized countries today. And its incidence, despite all efforts to the contrary, is increasing at 1% a year. The fact is that some 80% of cancers are likely to be due to environmental factors that could be reduced or even eradicated. This title explains how our genes work, and how they are adversely affected by the modern environment in which we live, whether in the North or the South. The factors include toxic industrial and agricultural chemicals, excessive sunlight (a result of the hole in the ozone layer), nuclear radiation from power plants and the military, other forms of radiation (mobile phones, electricity transmission systems), food contaminants, atmospheric pollutants (tobacco smoke, car exhaust fumes), and the potential impact of genetic engineering. It explains how the body defends itself from external attack, what happens when these defences are overwhelmed, and the need for much more careful development of new technologies, industrial processes, products and foodstuffs.

Early Warning Signals; Genes - the targets of hostilities; nuclear attack; phone attack?; chemical attack; food attack; enemies from within; a first line of defence; the main defence forces; what if our defences are overwhelmed? can we survive the siege? could the gene siege redirect our evolution? genes to take the strain; gene attack by humans; DNA and planetary stewardship.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.2003
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Cape Town
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
ISBN-10	0-86486-627-5 / 0864866275
ISBN-13	978-0-86486-627-1 / 9780864866271
Zustand	Neuware