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Nature General

The Suffering Gene

Environmental Threats to our Health

by (author) Roy Burdon

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2003
Category
General, Toxicology
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773571662
    Publish Date
    Aug 2003
    List Price
    $110.00

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Roy Burdon discusses how our genes work, how they are adversely effected by a huge range of factors - toxic industrial and agricultural chemicals, excessive sunlight, nuclear radiation from power plants and the military, other forms of radiation, food contaminants, and atmospheric pollutants - and how they may be affected by genetic engineering. Burdon explains how the body defends itself from external attack, what happens when these defences are overwhelmed, and what humanity needs to do to develop a much more careful approach to new technologies, industrial processes, and food production.

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