1 Overview: The Dioxin Debate --;2 Risk Assessments of Dioxinlike Compounds --;3 Environmental Sources, Distribution, and Fate of Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins, Dibenzofurans, and Related Organochlorines --;4 Dioxins in Food --;5 Toxicology of Dioxins and Related Chemicals --;6 Pharmacokinetics of Dioxins and Related Chemicals --;7 Immunotoxicology of Dioxins and Related Chemicals --;8 Dose-Response Effects of Dioxins: Species Comparison and Implication for Risk Assessment --;9 Dioxins, Dibenzofurans, PCBs and Wildlife --;10 Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity of Dioxins and Other Ah Receptor Agonists --;11 Aquatic Toxicity of Dioxins and Related Chemicals --;12 Dioxins and Mammalian Carcinogenesis --;13 Neurochemical and Behavioral Sequelae of Exposure to Dioxins and PCBs --;14 Exposure Assessment: Measurement of Dioxins and Related Chemicals in Human Tissues --;15 Human Health Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls --;16 Cancer Epidemiology --;17 Reproductive Epidemiology of Dioxins --;18 Chemical, Environmental, and Health Aspects of the Seveso, Italy, Accident --;19 The Yusho Rice Oil Poisoning Incident --;20 The Yu-cheng Rice Oil Poisoning Incident.
This book originated in a series of cross-disciplinary conversations in the years 1984-1990 between the editor, who is a physician-researcher involved in clinical and laboratory research, and a dioxin toxicologist.