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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CHAPTER 1 General Survey of Geomedicine -- CHAPTER 2 Deficiency of Mineral Nutrients for Mankind -- CHAPTER 3 Problems on Deficiency and Excess of Minerals in Animal Nutrition -- CHAPTER 4 Problems on Excess of Inorganic Chemical Compounds for Mankind -- CHAPTER 5 Geochemical Maps as a Basis for Geomedical Investigations -- CHAPTER 6 Registration of Geochemical Composition of Soils, Plants, and Waters as a Basis for Geomedical Investigations in Finland -- CHAPTER 7 Medical Registration as a Basis for Geomedical Investigations -- CHAPTER 8 Pollution as a Geomedical Factor -- CHAPTER 9 Effects of Natural Ionizing Radiation -- CHAPTER 10 Effects of Radioactive Radiation Caused by Man -- CHAPTER 11 Physiological Aspects in Geomedicine -- CHAPTER 12 Zoonoses and Geomedical Factors -- CHAPTER 13 Geomedical Approaches in the Education of Physicians in Norway -- CHAPTER 14 Geomedical Approaches in Education of Veterinarians -- CHAPTER 15 Specific Geomedical Problems in Different Parts of the World -- 15A. Some Geomedical Phenomena and Relationships in the Western Hemisphere -- 15B. A Geomedical Appraisal of Australia and New Zealand -- 15C. Geoenvironment-Related Disease Endemicity in Africa, with Special Reference to Tanzania -- 15D. Specific Geomedical Problems in Asia -- 15E. Environmental Geochemistry and Health in Western Europe -- Index