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Information Resources in Toxicology, Volume 1: Background, Resources, and Tools
- 5th Edition - May 14, 2020
- Editor: Philip Wexler
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 7 2 4 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 7 2 5 - 3
This new fifth edition of Information Resources in Toxicology offers a consolidated entry portal for the study, research, and practice of toxicology. Both volumes represents a uniq… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis new fifth edition of Information Resources in Toxicology offers a consolidated entry portal for the study, research, and practice of toxicology. Both volumes represents a unique, wide-ranging, curated, international, annotated bibliography, and directory of major resources in toxicology and allied fields such as environmental and occupational health, chemical safety, and risk assessment. The editors and authors are among the leaders of the profession sharing their cumulative wisdom in toxicology’s subdisciplines. This edition keeps pace with the digital world in directing and linking readers to relevant websites and other online tools.
Due to the increasing size of the hardcopy publication, the current edition has been divided into two volumes to make it easier to handle and consult. Volume 1: Background, Resources, and Tools, arranged in 5 parts, begins with chapters on the science of toxicology, its history, and informatics framework in Part 1. Part 2 continues with chapters organized by more specific subject such as cancer, clinical toxicology, genetic toxicology, etc. The categorization of chapters by resource format, for example, journals and newsletters, technical reports, organizations constitutes Part 3. Part 4 further considers toxicology’s presence via the Internet, databases, and software tools. Among the miscellaneous topics in the concluding Part 5 are laws and regulations, professional education, grants and funding, and patents. Volume 2: The Global Arena offers contributed chapters focusing on the toxicology contributions of over 40 countries, followed by a glossary of toxicological terms and an appendix of popular quotations related to the field.
The book, offered in both print and electronic formats, is carefully structured, indexed, and cross-referenced to enable users to easily find answers to their questions or serendipitously locate useful knowledge they were not originally aware they needed. Among the many timely topics receiving increased emphasis are disaster preparedness, nanotechnology, -omics, risk assessment, societal implications such as ethics and the precautionary principle, climate change, and children’s environmental health.
Due to the increasing size of the hardcopy publication, the current edition has been divided into two volumes to make it easier to handle and consult. Volume 1: Background, Resources, and Tools, arranged in 5 parts, begins with chapters on the science of toxicology, its history, and informatics framework in Part 1. Part 2 continues with chapters organized by more specific subject such as cancer, clinical toxicology, genetic toxicology, etc. The categorization of chapters by resource format, for example, journals and newsletters, technical reports, organizations constitutes Part 3. Part 4 further considers toxicology’s presence via the Internet, databases, and software tools. Among the miscellaneous topics in the concluding Part 5 are laws and regulations, professional education, grants and funding, and patents. Volume 2: The Global Arena offers contributed chapters focusing on the toxicology contributions of over 40 countries, followed by a glossary of toxicological terms and an appendix of popular quotations related to the field.
The book, offered in both print and electronic formats, is carefully structured, indexed, and cross-referenced to enable users to easily find answers to their questions or serendipitously locate useful knowledge they were not originally aware they needed. Among the many timely topics receiving increased emphasis are disaster preparedness, nanotechnology, -omics, risk assessment, societal implications such as ethics and the precautionary principle, climate change, and children’s environmental health.
- Introductory chapters provide a backdrop to the science of toxicology, its history, the origin and status of toxicoinformatics, and starting points for identifying resources
- Offers an extensive array of chapters organized by subject, each highlighting resources such as journals, databases,organizations, and review articles
- Includes chapters with an emphasis on format such as government reports, general interest publications, blogs, and audiovisuals
- Explores recent internet trends, web-based databases, and software tools in a section on the online environment
- Concludes with a miscellany of special topics such as laws and regulations, chemical hazard communication resources, careers and professional education, K-12 resources, funding, poison control centers, and patents
- Paired with Volume Two, which focuses on global resources, this set offers the most comprehensive compendium of print, digital, and organizational resources in the toxicological sciences with over 120 chapters contributions by experts and leaders in the field
Toxicologists, pharmacologists, drug companies, toxicology testing labs, poison control centers, physicians, legal and regulatory professions (EPA, government), and chemists
Part I. Introduction
1. Toxicology: A Primer
2. History of Toxicology
3. Development of Toxicoinformatics
4. Toxicoinformatics Today
5. Starting Points for Finding Toxicology Resources
Part II. Subject Categorization: Books and More
6. General Texts
7. Analytical Tox
8. Animals in Research
9. Biomarkers
10. Biotechnology
11. Biotoxins
12. Cancer
13. Chemical Compendia
14. Chemicals: Cosmetics and Other Consumer Products
15. Children’s Environmental Health
16. Climate Change
17. Chemicals: Drugs
18. Chemicals: Dusts and Fibers
19. Chemicals: Metals
20. Chemicals: Pesticides
21. Chemicals: Solvents
22. Chemicals: Selected Chemicals
23. Clinical Toxicology
24. Developmental and Reproductive
25. Disaster Prepared & Management
26. Environmental Tox: Aquatic
27. Environmental Tox: Air
28. Environmental Tox: Hazardous Waste
29. Environmental Tox: Terrestrial
30. Environmental Tox: Wildlife
31. Epidemiology
32. Ethical Considerations
33. Exposure Science
34. Food and Nutrient Toxicology
35. Forensic Toxicology
36. Genetic Toxicology
37. Mixtures
38. Molecular, Cell., and Biochem Tox
39. Nanotechnology
40. Noise
41. Occupational Health
42. Omics
43. Pathology
44. Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism
45. Precautionary Principle
46. Radiation
47. Regulatory Tox
48. Risk Assessment
49. Substance Abuse
50. Target Sites: General
51. Target Sites: Cardiovascular
52. Target Sites: Endocrine
53. Target Sites: Gastrointestinal
54. Target Sites: Hematopoietic
55. Target Sites: Immune
56. Target Sites: Kidney
57. Target Sites: Liver
58. Target Sites: Nervous System
59. Target Sites: Respiratory
60. Target Sites: Sensory
61. Target Sites: Skin
62. Terrorism and Warfare (Chemical, Biological and Rad)
63. Testing Methods & Tox Assess (incl Alternatives)
64. Veterinary Tox
Part III. Other Resources
65. Organizations
66. Journals and Newsletters
67. General Interest and Popular Works
68. Technical Reports and Government Information
69. Audiovisual and Non-Print Resources
Part IV. The Online Environment and Data Science
70. The Internet: Recent Trends
71. Web-Based Databases
72. Software Tools for Tox & Risk Assess
Part V. Special Topics
73. Laws and Regulations
74. Hazard Communication
75. Professional Education
76. Public Education
77. Grants and Funding
78. Poison Control Centers
79. Patents
- No. of pages: 1054
- Language: English
- Edition: 5
- Published: May 14, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128137246
- eBook ISBN: 9780128137253
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Philip Wexler
Philip Wexler has written and edited numerous publications related to toxicology and toxico-informatics, as well as taught and otherwise lectured globally on these topics. He has been Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Toxicology including the current, 4th edition (2023) since its inception as well as Information Resources in Toxicology (Elsevier. 5th ed. 2020), and Chemicals, Environment, Health: A Global Management Perspective (CRC Press/Taylor and Francis. 2011). He has served as Associate Editor for Toxicology Information and Resources for Elsevier's journal, Toxicology and edited special issues on Digital Information and Tools. Phil is also overseeing a monographic series on Toxicology History. Volumes have been published on Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, modern clinical toxicology, risk assessment, alternative test methods, food and nutrition, and disasters, with more in the planning stages. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of the Taylor and Francis journal, Global Security: Health, Science, and Policy and a past recipient of the US Society of Toxicology’s (SOT) Public Communications Award.
Phil recently retired from a long federal career as a Technical Information Specialist at the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program, within its Specialized Information Services Division (SIS). His initial position at NLM was as a Fellow of its Associate Program and early work included a brief stint in the Reference Services Section. A recipient of the NLM Regents Award for Scholarly or Technical Achievement and the Distinguished Technical Communication Award of the Washington chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, he was team leader for the development of the ToxLearn online multi-module tutorials, a joint activity with the SOT. Phil had also been project officer for the LactMed file on drugs and lactation, and the IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System) and ITER (International Toxicity Estimates for Risk) risk assessment databases.
Additionally, Phil had been the guiding force behind, and federal liaison to, the World Library of Toxicology, Chemical Safety, and Environmental Health (WLT) prototype, a free global Web portal that provided the scientific community and public with links to major government agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, professional societies, and other groups addressing issues related to toxicology, public health, and environmental health prior to its migration to the INND/Toxipedia group. This multilingual tool, fed by information from a roster of international Country Correspondents, has been praised as a successful test resource for overcoming barriers to the sharing of information between countries, enhancing collaboration, and minimizing duplication. Currently on hiatus, it awaits a visionary funding source to become operational.
A trustee of the Toxicology Education Foundation (TEF), Phil had previously served as its federal liaison. He is a past Chair of SOT’s World Wide Web Advisory Team, and active in its Ethical, Legal, Forensics, and Social Issues Specialty Section. He was a member of the Education and Communications Work Group of the CDC/ATSDR’s National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposure. A co-developer of the Toxicology History Room, he is co-founder and was federal liaison to the Toxicology History Association. For many years he organized and emceed the popular Toxicology Quiz Bowl at the annual SOT meetings.
In addition to pursuing toxicology-related activities in his retirement, Phil is happy to have more time to embrace other lifelong interests. He is the author of five poetry collections, a mosaic artist, and a cactus and succulent enthusiast.
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Retired, National Library of Medicine (NLM), Bethesda, MD, USARead Information Resources in Toxicology, Volume 1: Background, Resources, and Tools on ScienceDirect