Overview
- Medical Geochemistry is a new branch of Earth Science which borrows methods and approaches from basic geochemical science and applies them evaluating interactions between the environment and geology and humans (e.g. bone, gastric, lung and dermatological)
- Gives a comprehensive and focused approach with respect to applying geochemical techniques
- Reviews expertise on the geochemical methods used to understand the relationships that occur between human health and environment
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book includes a collection of chapters illustrating the application of geochemical methods to investigate the interactions between geological materials and fluids with humans. Examples include the incorporation and human health effects of inhaling lithogenic materials, the reactivity of biological fluids with geological materials, and the impact on nascent biomineral formation. Biomineralization is investigated in terms of mineralogy, morphology, bone chemistry, and pathological significance with a focus on the health impacts of "foreign" geological/environmental trace element incorporation. One of the contribution is devoted to particulate matter, the presence of metals and metalloids in the environment, and the possibility of using human hair as a biomarker between environmental/geological exposure and human bioincorporation. Other chapters focus on the last advances on the analytical methods and instrumentational approaches to investigating the chemistry of biological fluids and tissues.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Thomas Darrah is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. He is specialized in the impact of metals in human bodies, like for example the metallomic impacts of metals in bone.
Prof. Yigal Erel is working at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is specialist of the influence of metals in the environment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Medical Geochemistry
Book Subtitle: Geological Materials and Health
Editors: Paolo Censi, Thomas Darrah, Yigal Erel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4372-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4371-7Published: 20 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9636-2Published: 09 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4372-4Published: 28 February 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 194
Topics: Geochemistry, Environmental Health, Medicinal Chemistry, Ecotoxicology