On this page you will see suggested literature (books) on Medical Geology and related subjects. The list is by no means complete, and will probably never be, but will serve as a help for those interested in the subject
If you are interested in medical geology papers in journals we are compiling such papers. Press here.
If you have any additions to the list, please mail the suggestions to olle.selinus@gmail.com for inclusion on the page.
| "Report from the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, U.S.A. National Academies: The National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine have just released their latest publication on the field of Medical Geology entitled: "Earth Materials and Health - Research Priorities for Earth Science and Public Health". The full citation is: Earth Materials and Health - Research Priorities for Earth Science and Public Health. National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, 2007; pp. 176: ISBN 978-0-309-10470-8 (Book); Library of Congress Control Number: 20007921888. Copies of the report are available from the National Academies Press at http://www.nap.edu. |  |
Two books on medical geology in Brazil and in India MEDICAL GEOLOGY IN BRAZIL Edited by English version available!
WORKSHOP ON MEDICAL GEOLOGY 2004. Geological Survey of India |
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A special volume of AMBIO, the journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on medical geology. No 1, February 2007 MEDICAL GEOLOGY: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FUTURE Preface to Medical Geology Papers, Rolf Hallberg Epidemiological Transitions and the Changing Face of Medical Geology, Philip Weinstein and Angus Cook Iodine Deficiency: An Ancient Problem in a Modern World, Ron Fuge Natural Minerogenic Dust and Human Health, Edward Derbyshire Global Impacts Of Geogenic Arsenic: A Medical Geology Research Case, Jose A. Centeno, Chin-Hsiao Tseng, Gijsbert B. Van der Voet, and Robert B. Finkelman Blackfoot Disease in Taiwan: Its Link with Inorganic Arsenic Exposure from Drinking Water, Chin-Hsiao Tseng, Choon-Khim Chong, Ching-Ping Tseng, and Jose A. Centeno Radon: Sources, Health Risks, and Hazard Mapping, J. D. Appleton Selenium Deficiency and Endemic Heart Failure in China: A Case Study of Biogeochemistry for Human Health, Changsheng Li Selenium Geochemistry and Health, Fiona Fordyce Health Effects of Toxic Organic Substances from Coal: Toward “Panendemic” Nephropathy, William Orem, Calin Tatu, Nikola Pavlovic, Joseph Bunnell, Harry Lerch, Virgil Paunescu, Valentin Ordodi, Deolinda Flores, Margo Corum, and Anne Bates Health Impacts of Coal: Facts and Fallacies, Robert B. Finkelman Metal Biology: Aspects of Beneficial Effects, Ulf Lindh Mobilization of Mercury and Methylmercury from Forest Soils after a Severe Storm-Fell Event, John Munthe, Sofie Hellsten, and Therese Zetterberg Medical Geology: An Opportunity for the Future, Olle Selinus |
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Metal contaminants in New Zealand and Health effects2005
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Geology and Health, Closing the Gap Edited
by H. Catherine W. Skinner and Antony R. Berger For all information go to the link above. Reviews of the book: |
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A book on Medical Geology has been
published in Serbia by our member prof. Komatina It is very difficult to answer the important question: how suitable is environment of some area to live in? It cannot be claimed that medical science, during its development, has found a firm foundation within the natural, more precisely the geological, environment, where all the activities of human life are carried out. On the other hand, the individual efforts of geoscientists to promote some of the factors of the Earth's crust that are of interest from the health viewpoint, have not been registered by the wide scientific community. A more complete development of the basics of the theory, subject, and methods, of a new, and now very important, scientific discipline, has been described at the beginning of the 21st century, in a monograph, MEDICAL GEOLOGY, written by Dr. Miomir M. Komatina. MEDICAL GEOLOGY was published, by Tellur from Belgrade (Yugoslavia). The book consists of 429 pages, with 130 figures and 831 bibliographic references. It is dedicated to the wide range of readers: geoscientists, doctors, biologists, ecologists, land-use planners, and to all others, who are interested in the problems of life and human health protection. Dr Snezana Komatina-Petrovic E-mail: unabojan@eunet.yu |
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Elements December 2007 Medical Mineralogy and Geochemistry Medical Mineralogy and Geochemistry: An Interfacial Science
Bioactive Glass Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration Interactions between Proteins and Soil Mineral Surfaces: Environmental and Health Consequences Toxic Potential of Mineral Dusts Pathological Biomineralization of Kidney Stones |
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http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/Rim/Rim64.html Chapter 1: The Emergent Field of Medical Mineralogy and Geochemistry. By Nita Sahai, Martin A. A. Schoonen, H. Catherine W. Skinner, p 1-4 Chapter 2: The Toxicological Geochemistry of Earth Materials: An Overview of Processes and the Interdisciplinary Methods Used to Understand Them. By Geoffrey S. Plumlee, Suzette A. Morman, Thomas L. Ziegler, p 5-57 Chapter 3: Metal Speciation and Its Role in Bioaccessibility and Bioavailability. By Richard J. Reeder, Martin A. A. Schoonen, Antonio Lanzirotti, p 59-113 Chapter 4: Aluminum, Alzheimer's Disease and the Geospatial Occurrence of Similar Disorders. By Daniel P. Perl, Sharon Moalem, p 115-134 Chapter 5: Potential Role of Soil in the Transmission of Prion Disease. By P. T. Schramm, C. J. Johnson, N. E. Mathews, D. McKenzie, J. M. Aiken, J. A. Pedersen, p 135-152 Chapter 6: Interaction of Iron and Calcium Minerals in Coals and their Roles in Coal Dust-Induced Health and Environmental Problems. By Xi Huang, Terry Gordon, William N. Rom, Robert B. Finkelman, p 153-178 Chapter 7: Mineral-Induced Formation of Reactive Oxygen Species. By Martin A. A. Schoonen, Corey A. Cohn, Elizabeth Roemer, Richard Laffers, Sanford R. Simon, Thomas O'Riordan. p 179-221 Chapter 8: Bone: Nature of the Calcium Phosphate Crystals and Cellular, Structural, and Physical Chemical Mechanisms in Their Formation. By Melvin J. Glimcher, p 223-282 Chapter 9: Silicate Biomaterials for Orthopaedic and Dental Implants. By Marta Cerruti, Nita Sahai, p 283-313 Chapter 10: Living Cells in Oxide Glasses. By Jacques Livage, Thibaud Coradin, p 315-332 |
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ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH Medical Geology in Developing Countries, Part 1 BAOSHAN ZHENG. DAISHE WU, BINBIN WANG, XIAOJING LIU, MINGSHI WANG, AIMIN WANG, GUISEN XIAO, PUGAO LIU and ROBERT B. FINKELMAN Fluorosis caused by indoor coal combustion in China: discovery and progress BERNARDINO RIBEIRO DE FIGUEIREDO, RICARDO PEROBELLI BORBA and RÖMULO SIMÖES ANGELICA / Arsenic occurrence in Brazil and human exposure MERAL DOGAN and A. UMRAN DOGAN / Arsenic mineralization, source, distribution, and abundance in the Kutahya region of the western Anatolia, Turkey STANISLAV RAPANT and KATARINA KRCMOVÅ / Health risk assessment maps for arsenic groundwater content: application of national geochemical databases N. SEGOVIA, M.I. GASO and M.A. ARMIENTA / Environmental radon studies in Mexico C.B. DISSANAYAKE and ROHANA CHANDRAJITH / Medical geology in tropical countries with special reference to Sri Lanka AKINLOLU E ABIMBOLA, OLUSEGUN O. KEHINDE-PHILLIPS and AKINADE S. OLATUNJI / The Sagamu cement factory, SW Nigeria: Is the dust generated a potential health hazard? ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH Guest edited by Olle Selinus OLLE SELINUS / Introduction to the second special issue of Medical Geology in developing countries; SHUXUN SHAO and BAOSHAN ZHENG / The biogeochemistry of selenium in Sunan grassland, Gansu, Northwest China, casts doubt on the belief that Marco Polo reported selenosis for the first time in history NAZMI ORUC / Occurrence and problems of high fluoride waters in Turkey: an overview T. C. DAVIES / Environmental health impacts of East African Rift volcanism MICHELE A. MONTEIL / Saharan dust clouds and human health in the English-speaking Caribbean: what wc know and don't know M. A. ARMIENTA and N. SEGOVIA / Arsenic and fluoride in the groundwater of Mexico A. UMRAN DOGAN and MERAL DOGAN / Re-evaluation and re-classification of erionite series minerals A. UMRAN DOGAN, MERAL DOGAN and JOHN A. HOSKINS / Erionite series minerals: mineralogical and carcinogenic properties U. A. LAR and A. B. TEJAN / Highlights of some environmental problems of geomedical significance in Nigeria
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A new book in medical geology. Introduction to Medical Geology The book is due in June 2009 by Springer Verlag Over two billion people live in tropical lands. Most of them live in intimate contact with the immediate geological environment, obtaining their food and water directly from it. The unique geochemistry of these tropical environments have a marked influence on their health, giving rise to diseases that affect millions of people. The origin of these diseases is geologic as exemplified by dental and skeletal fluorosis, iodine deficiency disorders, trace element imbalances to name a few. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the emerging discipline of Medical Geology. Contents CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2: GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT |
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THE book on medical geology is now printed!!.
The
book can be ordered from Elsevier or Amazon.com www.amazon.com
(search for "essentials of medical geology")
http://books.elsevier.com/bookscat/links/details.asp?isbn=0126363412
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A book on Environmental Medicine with a chapter on Medical Geology is published:
For details and information, click on the picture
Environmental Medicine deals with environmental risk factors and human health. This is related to all of us since we are all exposed to air to breathe, water to drink, food and beverages. The risk factors can be of many different kinds like radioactivity, chemicals or ultra-violet radiation from the sun. Many of the risk factors could be avoided or reduced with the knowledge that they exist and what the risk situations are.
In this book you will find a number of scientists and physicians who are involved in research and human health care. They want to transfer their knowledge to students, decision makers and people interested in these matters which is the reason why the book is in a form of popularized science with many illustrations and photographs.
The 18 chapters deal with the process of cancer, genetics, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, UV-radiation, allergens, algae toxins, water and soil contamination of mutagens and metals, the Chernobyl accident, radon, acidification, metal toxicity, organic chlorinated hydrocarbons, endocrine disruptors, food mutagens, mycotoxins, acute poisoning and risk perception.
The authors are from Karolinska Institutet (the Medical University of Stockholm) in Sweden, MIT and Harvard Medical School in Boston, US Environmental Protection Agency, US National Cancer Institute and University of California. Further, Huddinge University Hospital, The Agricultural University, National Veterinary Institute, The Geological Survey of Sweden and Lund University of Sweden are represented, together with The South African Medical Research Council and Carleton University of Canada.
One author, professor M.J. Molina from MIT, received the Nobel Prize 1995 for his and his colleagues' research in atmospheric chemistry.
