Lecture 23 - Special Topic: Endocrine Disruption

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NOTE: A part of this lecture contains the PBS video "Fooling with Nature." Copyright release for open courseware digital streaming was not granted by the copyright owners. Thus, some Media files in this section are password protected. Students should contact the instructor for the fair use password at etox@uidaho.edu.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the scientific basis of environmental endocrine disruption.
2. Explore the endocrine disruption hypothesis.
3. Review the classic case studies that have increased awareness in the public about environmental endocrine disruption.
4. Understand recent research and policy issues related to environmental endocrine disruption.
5. Explore the future pathways of analysis in the study of endocrine disruption.

Advance Reading

1. PBS Fooling with Nature: Teeny Weenies
2. Nat'l Academy Press, Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment (2000); Executive Summary pp 1-9.
3. Nemours Foundation: The Endocrine System
4. AMA Atlas: The Endocrine System
5. NLM Medline: Endocrine Diseases

Resources

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Suggested Reading

1. Our Stolen Future
2. Essay: An Example of the Precautionary Principle at Work - Endocrine Disruption
3. Endocrine/Estrogen Newsletter
4. World Wildlife Fund: Endocrine Disruption, Emerging Threats
5. Junk Science: Our Stolen Future, How They Are Insulting Our Intelligence
6. Cornell Univ.: Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors
7. EPA: Special Report on Endocrine Disruption (Fact Sheet)
8. EPA: Special Report on Endocrine Disruption
9. EPA: Report to Congress, Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program
10. NRDC: Endocrine Disruption
11. Junk Science (Env. Health Perspectives Letter to the Editor):The Importance of Protocol Design and Data Reporting to Research on Endocrine Disruption
12. Johns Hopkins: Syndromes of Abnormal Sex Differentiation