Overview
- The proposed book is the first book to address the linkage between exposure to artificial light at night (LAN), suppression of pineal melatonin production and breast & prostate cancers (BC&PC) in humans
- It introduces and explains several modern state-of-the-art theories, linking light pollution with BC&PC, which incidence rates have greatly increased in recent years, especially in developed countries
- This book also illustrates research hypotheses about health effects of light pollution, mainly that of short wave length, by results of animal models and population-based studies
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Artificial Light and Human Temporal Organization
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Light Pollution, its Known Health Effects and Impact on Energy Conservation
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Light Pollution and its Potential Links to Breast and Prostate Cancers
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Reviews
This novel, important, clearly written book brings together several familiar subjects whose connections had not been appreciated. We are grateful for widespread electric lighting (a relatively new phenomenon in human history), and we fear widespread breast cancer and prostate cancer. Many of us have also heard of biological clocks and the hormone melatonin. The authors assemble evidence that the blessings of electric lighting are a risk factor for the curses of breast cancer and prostate cancer, mediated by effects on our biological clocks and our melatonin production. Hence this book will interest not only scholars but also the broad public.
Jared Diamond
Professor of Physiology, Environmental Health Sciences, and Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Light Pollution as a New Risk Factor for Human Breast and Prostate Cancers
Authors: Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6220-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6219-0Published: 12 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8315-6Published: 16 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6220-6Published: 03 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 168
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cancer Research, Environmental Health, Biomedicine general