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Brain, Vol. 122, No. 5, 993-994, May 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

Book Reviews

OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL NEUROTOXICOLOGY.

By R. G. Feldman. 1998. Pp. 500. Philadelphia: Lippincott–Raven. ISBN 0-7817-1739-6..

J. B. Cavanagh

Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK

It is almost 20 years since the appearance of Spencer and Schaumburg's ground-breaking volume on experimental and clinical neurotoxicology, which gave us a comprehensive survey of the subject as understood at the time. That book served a useful purpose but is now largely out of date. Dr Feldman's new work has a different approach. It is a survey of the problems posed by occupational and environmental neurotoxicology as shown by a comprehensive and detailed account of the effects of 20 chemicals widely employed in industry. These include various metals, several types of widely employed solvent and agrochemicals to which workers in the field and in the factory become exposed. In the context of the title, the `environment' is that contaminated by man's industry and inventiveness stemming from his desire to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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