Persuasive communication about matters of great urgency: Endocrine disruption

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 7555-7558

  Collins, Terrence J ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTIONS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; FUTURE GENERATIONS; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATIONS; SYNTHETIC CHEMICALS;

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ATRAZINE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; PHTHALIC ACID; RAIN; THALIDOMIDE;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH IMPACT;

CLIMATE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ECOTOXICITY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; HERMAPHRODITISM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SCIENTIST; SHORT SURVEY; TOXICITY;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FACULTY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; SCIENCE;

EID: 54349125554     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es800079k     Document Type: Short Survey

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