Lecture 1 - Introduction
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- Attendance
All enrolled students will be accessing the course on-line. Formally enrolled off-campus and on-campus students can access streaming lecture video or podcasts with interactive classroom tools.
- Lecture Materials
Choose either the Slides or PDF Notes.
- Lecture Video or Audio
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- Resources
Read the lecture learning objectives, complete the advanced reading, and review the resources found lower on the page.
- Homework
Under lecture activities, complete any Homework that has been assigned for the lecture.
- Discussion
Participate in the interacourse discussion by answering prompt question posted and posting your own questions.
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Learning Objectives
- Examine the context and content of this course.
- Examine perception vs. reality.
- understand that "chemicals" are all around us.
- Define environmental toxicology.
- Describe the prehistory and history of toxicology.
- Distinguish descriptive, mechanistic, and regulatory disciplines of toxicology.
- Recognize the multidisciplinary approaches to environmental toxicology.
- Summarize the relevance of environmental toxicology to the human species.
Advance Reading
- Review the course Web site.
- Review the table of contents of the course text.
- Richards 2nd ed, pp 3-15; pp 329-338; pp 445-451.
Resources
Keywords
- Antidotes
- Atmosphere
- Biosphere
- Cells
- Clinical toxicology
- Descriptive toxicology
- Ebers papyrus
- Ecosystem
- Environmental Toxicology
- Forensic toxicology
- Hazardous waste
- Hydrosphere
- Industrial toxicology
- Infinite dilution
- Lithosphere
- Macromolecules
- Mechanistic toxicology
- Molecules
- Morbidity
- Mortality
- Orfila
- Organ system
- Organelles
- Organs
- Paracelsus
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