The Medical Geology revolution——The evolution of an IUGS initiative

• 来源期刊: 幕-国际地学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2007,（4）
• 页码范围: 305-309
• 页数: 5页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Introduction In December 2003 Episodes published an article entitled"Medical Geology:New Relevance in the Earth Sciences"by Bowman,Bobrowski,and Selinus.This paper was iust one early example of the interest and excitement sparked by this emerging field of medical geology-the impacts of geologic materials and geologic processes on animal and human health.Medical geology attempts to bring together geoscientists and biomedical/public health researchers to address a range of environmental health problems.