Toxicology’s gold-standard text — completely updated to reflect the latest breakthroughs and discoveries 

 equips you with an unsurpassed understanding of modern toxicology, including the key principles, concepts, mechanisms, chemical-specific toxicity, and modes of thought that are the foundation of the discipline. This trusted classic not only delivers a comprehensive review of the essential components of toxicology, it offers the most up-to-date, revealing, and in-depth look at the systemic responses of toxic substance available anywhere.

Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, Ninth Edition is logically divided into seven sections:

• General Principles of Toxicology
• Disposition of Toxicants
• Non-Organ Directed Toxicity
• Target Organ Toxicity
• Toxic Agents
• Environmental Toxicology
• Applications of Toxicology

Many new contributors capture the progress made in toxicology over the past few years:

This edition is markedly updated from the previous edition, with more than one-third of the chapters authored by scientists who have not made previous contributions to the book.

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