An overview of the conference on low level lead toxicity

Autor: Emil A. Pfitzer
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 1974
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Zdroj: Environmental Health Perspectives
ISSN: 0091-6765
Popis: Alice had come through the looking-glass and had just read an intriguing poem in a book she had found on a table. When she had finished it she said, "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas-only I don't exactly know what they are!" On several occasions during this conference, and many times in the past, I have shared Alice's dilemma. Fortunately for most of us here, this is not our first conference on the toxicity of lead, and it becomes increasingly less difficult to place pertinent ideas and data into perspective. We have really come a very long way in our understanding of low-level lead toxicity. How many conferences, symposia, books, review and research articles have there been since that Public Health Service Conference on Environmental Lead Contamination in December of 1965? Our numbers and efforts have expanded daily and data are being generated almost too rapidly for any one to keep up-to-date with it all. As stimulating as this has been for the involved and concerned scientist, the past eight years have not been completely joyous ones; rapid expansion can bring its problems. For some it has been the frustration of keeping patience while new investigators redis
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