Terminus Brain

Environmental Threat to Human Intelligence

Christopher Williams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1997
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-304-33857-3 (ISBN)

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Maintains that the human brain is now at risk from itself, since the brain is victim, perpetrator and healer of the adverse environmental changes which impair intelligence. This book provides an interdisciplinary study, ranging across the medical, social and environmental sciences.

According to the author of this study, millions of people are suffering a decline in intelligence due to pollution, the absence of environmental micro-nutrients and a degraded psycho-social environment. This decline can range from severe intellectual disability to a variety of mild, "sub-clinical" dysfunctions experienced by most people in the population. Up to 90% of children in some African cities are tangibly affected by one pollutant - lead. In response to these fears, the US Congress declared the 1990s the "Decade of the Brain". This study offers a wider, more comprehensive picture of the problem, ranging across the medical, social and environmental sciences, including evolutionary theory, disability studies, education, law and ethics.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.1997
Reihe/Serie	Global Issues
Zusatzinfo	tables, graphs, inde
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-304-33857-5 / 0304338575
ISBN-13	978-0-304-33857-3 / 9780304338573
Zustand	Neuware