Minerals latu sensu and human health : benefits, toxicity and pathologies / Celso Gomes, Michel Rautureau, editors.
Gomes, Celso B. (Celso Barros), editor.; Rautureau, Michel, editor.
2021
QP533 .M56 2021eb
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Title Minerals latu sensu and human health : benefits, toxicity and pathologies / Celso Gomes, Michel Rautureau, editors.
ISBN 9783030657062 (electronic bk.)
303065706X (electronic bk.)
9783030657055
3030657051
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65706-2
Published Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 668 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-65706-2 doi
Call Number QP533 .M56 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 612.3/92
Summary This volume provides a comprehensive academic review of both positive and negative effects of minerals on human health and quality of life. The book adopts the concept of mineral latu sensu (mineral l.s.), which encompasses a broad spectrum of natural, inorganic, solid, and crystalline, of natural and inorganic chemical elements (metals and metalloids), of modified natural minerals, of biominerals, and of syntetic minerals, all products that branch across the disciplines of earth, soil, environmental, materials, nutrition, and health sciences. Using this broad framework, the authors are able to provide a multidisciplinary assessment on many types of minerals which can be essential, beneficial and hazardous to human health, covering applications in medical geology, medical hydrology or balneotherapy, pharmacology, chemistry, nutrition, and biophysics. The book performs historical analyses of the uses of minerals for therapeutic and cosmetic purposes to better understand current trends and developments in mineral research and human health. The book will be of interest to students, public health officials, environmental agencies and researchers from various disciplines, as well as scientific societies and organizations focusing on medical geology, health resort medicine (crenotherapy, hydrotherapy and climatotherapy), and on pharmaceutical, cosmetic and biomedical applications.
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 10, 2021).
Added Author Gomes, Celso B. (Celso Barros), editor.
Rautureau, Michel, editor.
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Chapter 1. Introduction, Targets and Concepts
Chapter 2. Minerals, Natural Environment and Medical Geology
Chapter 3. Historical Evolution of the Use of Minerals in the Human Health
Chapter 4. Health Benefits and Risks of Minerals, Bioavailability, Bio-essentiality, Toxicity, and Pathologies
Chapter 5. Metals, Life and Health
Chapter 6. General Data on Clay Science, Crystallochemistry and Systematics of Clay Minerals, and Clay Typologies, Properties and Applications
Chapter 7. Interactions of Clay and Clay Minerals in the Human Health
Chapter 8. Minerals and the Origins of Life
Chapter 9. Minerals Utilized in Pharmacy and Cosmetics
Chapter 10. Nanominerals and Nanomaterials Utilized in Pharmacy and Therapeutics
Chapter 11. Biominerals and Biomaterials
Chapter 12. Psammotherapy or Arenotherapy
Chatper13. Mineral Water: Essential to Life, Health and Wellness
Chapter 14. Natural Mineral Water Used in Health Resort Medicine
Chapter 15. Healing Sulfurous Thermal Waters Used in Health Resort Medicine: Therapies, Indications and Contraindications
Chatper16. Natural Salt Mineral Water and Thalassotherapy.

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