Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health and Fertility

Woodruff - Environmental impacts
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Authors/editors: Tracey J Woodruff, Sarah J Janssen, Louis J Guillette Jr and Linda C Giudice
ISBN: 978-0-521-51952-6
Page count: 250
Publisher: Cambridge UP
Publication year: 2010

Many reproductive and developmental health problems are caused by exposure to chemicals that are widely dispersed in our environment. These problems include fertility, miscarriage, poor pregnancy outcomes, abnormal fetal development, early puberty, endometriosis and diseases and cancers of reproductive organs. The compelling nature of the collective science has resulted in recognition of a new field of environmental reproductive health. Focusing on exposures to environmental contaminants, particularly during critical periods in development and their potential effects on all aspects of future reproductive life-course, this book provides the first comprehensive source of information bringing together the arguments that are spread out among various scientific disciplines in environmental health, clinical and public health fields. It provides a review of the science in key areas of the relationship between environmental contaminants and reproductive health outcomes, and recommendations on efforts toward prevention in clinical care and public policy.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. Environmental contaminants and exposure
3. Development and maturation of the normal female reproductive system
    3.1 Ovary
    3.2 Oviduct and uterus
    3.3 Breast
4. Development and maturation of the normal male reproductive system
5. Modern genetics of reproductive biology
6. Mechanisms of endocrine disruption
7. Developmental exposures and implications for early and latent disease
8. Wildlife as sentinels of environmental impacts on reproductive health and fertility
9. Environmental contaminants and effects on timing and progression of human pubertal development
10. Environmental contaminants and impacts on healthy and successful pregnancies
11. Environmental contaminants and the reproductive and fertility effects in the male
    11.1 Introduction
    11.2 Possible role of fetal exposure
    11.3 Adult exposure and effects on fertility
12. Environmental contaminants, female reproductive health and fertility
13. Environmental contaminants and related systems that have implications for reproduction
    13.1 The neuroendocrine system
    13.2 The thyroid system
    13.3 The immune system
14. Environmental contaminants and cancers of the reproductive tract
15. Communicating with patients and the public about environmental exposures and reproductive risk
16. Interpreting science in the policy context
17. Conclusions – what does all this mean, and where are we going?

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