Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects (2011)

The second edition of Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects, edited by Ronald F. Dodson and Samuel P. Hammar and published by CRC Press in 2011. Fifteen chapters by various contributors cover the history of asbestos use and disease recognition, analysis methods, fiber burden in tissue, molecular pathogenesis, epidemiology, lung cancer, mesothelioma, other cancers, asbestosis, pleural disease, clinical diagnosis, a core curriculum for physicians and asbestos regulations. The preface says the United States has not yet joined over 50 countries that have banned asbestos-containing products.