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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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The Nature of Light and of Light Damage to Biological Tissues
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Light Damage to the Eye
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Protecting the Eye from Light Damage
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Overview of Light Damage to the Eye
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About this book
To my mind, the superoxide radical discovered by Linus Pauling more than 50 years ago is about to become a major issue in Ameri can medicine. Uncannily, Pauling's early focus on vitamin C has pointed the way to the whole catalogue of free-radical scavengers, which we in medicine will be using in the coming decade. In ophthalmology, the basic scientists have been talking about the role of free-radical induction by light for some time. They have accumulated an increasing amount of evidence supporting the idea that prolonged light exposure contributes to cataract development and retinal degeneration. Through Clinical Light Damage to the Eye, we hope to bring this message to the practicing ophthalmolo gist. Because Dr. Pauling's work bears so strongly on the key issue of free-radical damage, and because of my own great respect for him as a scientist and a man of rare courage, I invited Dr. Pauling to write the foreword to Clinical Light Damage to the Eye, which follows.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Clinical Light Damage to the Eye
Editors: David Miller
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4704-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1987
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-4704-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 225
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ophthalmology, Cell Biology