I wanted to let LatNetters know that the American Academy of Pediatrics has
just released Pediatric Environmental Health - 2nd Edition.
The book may be of interest to the lactation community for two
reasons. One, it contains an updated chapter on breastfeeding and
toxic contamination. Two, it contains chapters on all kinds of other
environmental health risks that might be relevant to exposures that
nursing mothers face.
I haven't seen this 2nd edition, but I do have the first one on my
shelf. My feeling on the breast milk chapter is that emphasizes the
importance of breastfeeding almost to the point of downplaying the
dangers of toxic contamination...but I'm sure others on this list
might react differently.
You
can order a copy of the new edition by visiting the AAP website at
http://www.aap.org/bookstore
The cost is $39.95 (a $5 savings) if the order is placed before December 31,
2003. After the new year, the non-member price is $44.95.
[I have no financial or professional ties to AAP. I'm just passing
on information about how to obtain the book, which was sent to me by
the Children's Environmental Health Network, a non-profit group of
which I'm a member.]
American Academy of Pediatrics (Pediatric Environmental Health, Second
Edition), Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD - Editor, and Sophie J. Balk, MD -
Associate Editor
List of Chapters
I. Introduction and Background
1. Introduction
2. Developmental Toxicity: Special Considerations Based on Age
and Developmental Stage
3. Breastfeeding
4. How to Take an Environmental History
5. How to do a Home Inventory of Environmental Hazards
II. Chemical and Physical Hazards
6. Air Pollutants, Indoor
7. Air Pollutants, Outdoor
8. Arsenic (new in 2nd Edition)
9. Asbestos
10. Carbon Monoxide
11. Electric and Magnetic Fields
12. Endocrine Disruptors
13. Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Smoking Cessation
14. Food Contaminants
15. Gasoline and its Additives (new in 2nd Edition)
16. Herbs, Dietary Supplements, and Other Remedies
17. Ionizing Radiation (Including Radon)
18. Irradiation of Food (new in 2nd Edition)
19. Lead
20. Mercury
21. Nickel, Manganese, and Chromium (new in 2nd Edition)
22. Nitrate and Nitrite in Water
23. Noise
24. Pesticides
25. Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Dibenzofurans, and Dibenzodioxins
26. Ultraviolet Light
27. Water Pollutants
III. Environments
28. Child Care Settings
29. Preconceptional and Prenatal Exposures (new in 2nd Edition)
30. Schools
31. Waste Sites
32. Workplaces
IV. Complex Situations
33. Arts and Crafts
34. Asthma
35. Cancer
36. Chemical-Biological Terrorism (new in 2nd Edition)
37. Environmental Disparities
38. Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
39. Nontherapeutic Use of Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture (new
in 2nd Edition)
40. Environmental Threats to Children's Health in Developing
Countries (new in 2nd Edition)
V. Communicating About Environmental Health
41. Communicating About Risk
42. Environmental Health Advocacy (new in 2nd Edition)
43. Risk Assessment (new in 2nd Edition)
Appendices
A. AAP Policy Statements from the Committee on Environmental
Health
B. Resources for Environmental Health
C. Curricula for Environmental Education in Schools
D. Common Abbreviations
E. Chairs of the AAP Committee on Environmental Health
F. AAP Patient Education Materials Related to Environmental
Health Issues
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Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Division of Interdisciplinary Studies
307 Job Hall
Ithaca College
Ithaca,NY 14850-7012
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