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Information Resources in Toxicology, Volume 1: Background, Resources, and Tools

  • 5th Edition - May 14, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Philip Wexler
  • Language: English

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

Description

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 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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Toxicologists, pharmacologists, drug companies, toxicology testing labs, poison control centers, physicians, legal and regulatory professions (EPA, government), and chemists

Table of contents

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

Product details

  • Edition: 5
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 14, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editor

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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.
Affiliations and expertise
Retired, National Library of Medicine (NLM), Bethesda, MD, USA

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