ES473 Medical Geology - Literature Review


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Reference List

2010 ES473 Academic Showcase Project (Updated April 22, 2010)

International Association of Medical Geologists Reference List


Downloadable Papers - Alphabetical Order (*.pdf files)

Abrahams, 2005, Geophagy and the involuntary ingestion of soil, in Selinus, 2005

Alloway, 2005, Bioavailability of Elements in Soil, in Selinus

Appleton, 2005, Radon in Air and Water, in Selinus, 2005

Appleton, 2007, Radon: Sources, Health Risks, and Hazard Mapping

Berger, 2003, Overview / Linking of Health and Geology, in Skinner and Berger

Bowell et al., 1996a, Formation of cave salts and utilization by elephants in Kenya

Bowell et al., 1996b, Biogeochemical factors affecting groundwater quality in Tanzania

Bowman et al., 2003, Medical Geology - New Relevance in the Earth Sciences

Bultman, 2005, The ecology of soil-borne human pathogens, in Selinus, 2005

Bunnell, 2004, Medical Geology: Emerging Discipline on the Ecosystem-Human Health Interface

Bunnell et al., 2005, GIS in Human Health Studies, in Selinus, 2005

Bunnell, J. E., Finkelman, R. B., Centeno, J. A., and Selinus, 2007, Medical Geology: A globally emerging discipline

Centeno et al., 2005, Environmental Pathology, in Selinus, 2005

Centeno et al., 2007, Global Impacts of Geogenic Arsenic: A Medical Geology Research Case

Combs, 2005, Geological Impacts on Nutritionin Selinus, 2005

Cook et al., 2004, Geological factors in the emergence of infectious disease

Davies, 2003, Case Study: Geomedical Health Conditions in Africa

Davies et al., 2005, Medical Geology perspectives, in Selinus

Derbyshire, 2003, Case Study: Natural Dust and Pneumoconiosis in Asia, in Skinner and Berger

Derbyshire, 2005, Natural Dust and Human Health, in Selinus, 2005

Derbyshire, 2007, Natural Minerogenic Dust and Human Health

Dissanayake, 2005, Of stones and health - Medical geology in Sri Lanka

Dissanayake and Chandrajith, 1996, Iodine in the environment and endemic goiter in Sri Lanka

Edmunds and Smedley, 1996, Groundwater geochemistry and health: an overview

Finkelman, 2007, Health Impacts of Coal: Facts and Fallacies

Finkleman et al., 200X, Medical geology - An emerging discipline

Finkelman et al., 2003, Case Study: Coal Combustion and Human Health in China, in Skinner and Berger

Finkleman et al., 2005, Medical geology - The emergence of a new discipline

Frank, 2003, Molybdenosis Leading to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Swedish Moose, in Skinner and Berger

Fordyce et al., 1996, Stream sediment, soil, and forage chemistry of cattle health in Zimbabwe

Fordyce et al., 2003, Case Study: Natural Iodine Occurrence in Sri Lanka, in Skinner and Berger

Fordyce, 2005, Selenium Deficiency and Toxicity, in Selinus, 2005

Fordyce, 2007, Selenium Geochemistry and Health

Fowles et al., 2005, Environmental Medicine, in Selinus, 2005

Fuge, 2005, Anthropogenic Sources, in Selinus, 2005

Fuge, 2005, Soils and Iodine Deficiency, in Selinus, 2005

Fuge, 2007, Iodine Deficiency: An Ancient Problem in a Modern World

Gomes and Silva, 2007, Minerals and clay minerals in medical geology

Gough et al., 2003, Cadmium Accumulation in Browse Vegetation, Alaska - Implications for Animal Health, in Skinner and Berger

Grattan et al., 2003, Case Study: Human Sickness and Volcanic Eruptions, in Skinner and Berger

Hillerdal, 2003, Health Problems Related to Environmental Fibrous Minerals, in Skinner and Berger

Hinkle and Pollette, 1999, Aresenic in Groundwater of the Willamette Basin

Jones, 2005, Animals and Medical Geology, in Selinus, 2005

Komatina, 2004, Chapter 1 - Introduction and Overview

Komatina, 2004, Chapter 2 - Overview Geological Factors that Effect Human Health (Part 1)

Komatina, 2004, Chapter 2 - Overview Geological Factors that Effect Human Health (Part 2)

Komatina, 2004, Chapter 2 - Overview Geological Factors that Effect Human Health (Part 3)

Komatina, 2004, Chapter 3 - Other Natural (Environmental) Factors

Komatina, 2004, Chapter 4 - Anthropogenic (man-made) Factors

Komatina, 2004, Chapter 6 - Geospatial Distribution of Human Health and Disease

Komatina, 2004, Chapter 7-8 - Procedures and methods in Medical Geology

Komatina, 2004, Chapter 9 -Regional Medical Geology

Komatina, 2004, Chapter 10 - Applied Medical Geology and Case Studies

Komatina, 2004, Chapter 11 - Economic Applications of Medical Geology in Health Care

Li, 2007, Selenium Deficiency and Endemic Heart Failure in China: A Case Study of Biogeochemistry for Human Health

Lindh, 2005A, Biochemical Uptake of Chemical Elements, in Selinus, 2005

Lindh, 2005B, Biological Functions of Elements, in Selinus, 2005

Maskall and Thornton, 1996, Trace elements in Kenyan soils and implications for wildlife health

Naidu and Nadebaum, 2003, Case Study: Natural Arsenic and Toxicity Problems, in Skinner and Berger

National Research Council, 2007, Chapter 2 - Earth Processes and Human Physiology

National Research Council, 2007, Chapter 3 - What we breathe

National Research Council, 2007, Chapter 4 - What we drink

National Research Council, 2007, Chapter 5 - What we eat

National Research Council, 2007, Chapter 6 - Earth Perturbations and Public Health Impacts

National Research Council, 2007, Chapter 7 - GIScience, Remote Sensing and Epidemiology

National Research Council, 2007, Chapter 9 - Collaborative Research Opportunities

Neal, 2003, Surface and Groundwater Quality and Human Health - Overview, in Skinner and Berger

Nicholson et al., 1996, Acid and gas contamination at Poas Volcano, Costa Rica

Nielsen and Jensen, 2005, Environmental Epidemiology, in Selinus, 2005

Orem et al., 2007, Health Effects of Toxic Organic Substances from Coal: Toward "Panendemic" Nephropathy

Oregon Public Health Department, 2009, Sutherlin Valley Groundwater Arsenic Study

Pereira et al., 2007, Strengthening Environmental Health in Malaysia - Linking Medical Geology to Health and the Environment

Plant et al., 1996, The role of geochemistry in environmental and epidemiological studies

Plant et al., 2003, Global Environmental Geochemistry, in Skinner and Berger

Robbins and Harthill, 2003, Life in Copper Province, in Skinner and Berger

Rubenowitz and Hiscock, 2005, Water Hardness and Health, in Selinus, 2005

Selinus, 2003, Biogeochemical Monitoring in Medical Geology - Methods and Practice, in Skinner and Berger

Selinus, 2004, Medical Geology: an emerging speciality

Selinus, O., 2007, Medical Geology - An Opportunity for the Future

Selinus and Frank, 2000, Chapter 10 - Medical Geology

Selinus and Galgan, 1996, Biogeochemistry and metal biology

Selinus et al., 2007, The Medical Geology Revolution

Selinus et al., 2008, Medical Geology - A new future for geology

Singh, 200X, Theoretical Basis For Medical Geology

Skinner, 2003, Geochemistry and Vertebrate Bones, in Skinner and Berger

Skinner, 2005, Mineralology in Bone, in Selinus, 2005

Smedley and Kinniburgh, 2005, Arsenic in Groundwater and the Environment, in Selinus, 2005

Steinnes, 2003, Biogeochemical Cycling of Selenium and Iodine - Implications for Geomedicine, in Skinner and Berger

Tateo and Summa, 2007, Element mobility in clays for healing use

Thornton, 1996, Sources and pathways of arsenic in the geologic environment

Tsing et al., 2007, Blackfoot Disease in Taiwan: Its Link with Inorganic Arsenic Exposure from Drinking Water

Wang et al., 2006, Arsenic concentrations in Chinese coals

Weinstein and Cook, 2005, Volcanic Emissions and Health, in Selinus, 2005

Weinstein and Cook, 2007, Epidemiological Transitions and the Changing Face of Medical Geology

Weinstein and Selinus, 200X, Nature and Medicine - A break through for human health

Whanger et al., 1977, Aresenic in Oregon Waters

Wuyi et al., 2003, Case Study: Aresenic and Selenium Toxicity, in Skinner and Berger