TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Toxicology A1 - Wallace, Robert B. PY - 2017 T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e AB - Toxicology is the study of the harmful effects of chemicals, including drugs, on living organisms. Many books (see General References), and particularly Toxicologic Profiles published by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Research, cover in detail the toxicology of individual substances. Freely available search engines allow access to innumerable Web pages with toxicological data, courses, and comments, the reliability of which requires careful assessment. This chapter focuses on generic and conceptual issues relating to properties of toxic substances in general, how they enter and move through the body, and the kinds of pathophysiologic effects that they exert on various targets within the body that ultimately lead to the health effects. The rapid advances being made in molecular toxicology are beyond the scope of this chapter. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141968530 ER -