Dr. Silver Publishes Book Chapter in Occupational and Environmental Health

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Associate Professor Ken Silver, along with professional colleagues in law and industrial hygiene, is author of the “Hazardous Waste” chapter in the textbook Occupational and Environmental Health (Oxford University Press, 2018).  Now in its seventh edition, “Levy-Wegman” is the most widely used book on the subject in American medical schools.

“We updated and doubled the number of references,” Silver said, “by adding new sources on community studies, Superfund policy, analytical epidemiology and emergency response.”  A sidebar on high profile epidemiologic studies in Woburn, Massachusetts and Toms River, New Jersey “makes the case for moving beyond cluster investigations to analytical studies if individual-level estimates of past exposure are feasible,” he said. 

Co-author Attorney Gary A. Davis, a native of Knoxville, contributed a section on pollution prevention which elaborates on emerging policies such as green chemistry, environmental labelling and extended producer responsibility (product stewardship).  A veteran of hazardous waste and toxic chemicals policy debates, Mr. Davis currently practices environmental law in Asheville, NC.

Senior author Denny Dobbins, CIH is retired from the highly respected Worker Education and Training Program, a unit of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences.