Casarett & Doull's Essentials of Toxicology, Third Edition

Understand the essential principles of toxicology and how poisons affect the human body with this accessible and engaging summary A Doody''s Core Title for 2017! • General Principles of Toxicology • Disposition of Toxicants • Nonorgan-directed Toxicity • Target Organ Toxicity • Toxic Agents • Environmental Toxicology • Applications of ToxicologyCasarett & Doull’s Essentials of Toxicology is an easy-to-absorb distillation of the major principles and concepts that were presented in depth in Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, Eighth Edition, the field’s gold-standard text. Presented in full color, the book concisely describes the science of toxicology, and includes important concepts from anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry to facilitate the understanding of the principles and mechanisms of toxicant action on specific organ systems. A summary of key