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Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health (BE.104J)
Art: В. Флемминг, Cell division according to W. Flemming (1882), 1882 · Public domain
- Instructors
- Prof. James Sherley, Dr. Laura Green, Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
- Term
- Spring 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 32 other files · 6 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 20.104J Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health (BE.104J), Spring 2005, Prof. James Sherley, Dr. Laura Green, Prof. Steven Tannenbaum — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- A lecture sequence of 26 items is confirmed. Assignment and exam materials exist too, but MIT's own order for them could not be verified, so they're shown as materials below rather than a sequence.
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Lecture Notes
15 files
- Introductory Lecture (PDF 1) Download
- Introductory Lecture (PDF 2) Download
- From the Real World to Hollywood and Back Again Download
- Epidemiology: Persons, Places, and Time Download
- Epidemiology: Test Development and Relative Risk Download
- Biostatistics: Concepts in Variance (PDF 1) Download
- Biostatistics: Concepts in Variance (PDF 2) Download
- Biostatistics: Distribution and the Mean Confidence Intervals Download
- Biostatistics: Detecting Differences and Correlations Download
- Biostatistics: Poisson Analyses and Power Download
- Environetics: Cause and Effect Download
- Environetics: Putting it all together - Evaluating Studies Download
- Evaluating Environmental Causes of Mesothelioma Download
- Quantitative Risk Assessment 2 Download
- Quantitative Risk Assessment 3 Download
Assignments
11 files
- Problem Set 1 Download
- Problem Set 2 Download
- Problem Set 2 · solutions Download
- Problem Set 3 Download
- Problem Set 3 · solutions Download
- Problem Set 4 Download
- Problem Set 5 Download
- Problem Set 5 · solutions Download
- Paper by Sueann Lee Download
- Paper by Jessica Hagelstein Download
- Paper by Erin Shea Download
Exams
Projects
- Rupali Avasare, Christina Fuentes, and Lynn Ngo. “An investigation into the supposed link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism.” Download
- Lisa An, Sueann Lee, and Erin Mathewson. “Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) and Childhood Leukemia.” Download
Study Materials
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Watch film A Civil Action
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Lecture 3: From the Real World to Hollywood and Back Again
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Lecture 4: Epidemiology: Persons, Places, and Time
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Lecture 5: Epidemiology: Test Development and Relative Risk
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Lecture 6: Biostatistics: Concepts in Variance
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Lecture 7: Biostatistics: Distribution and the Mean Confidence Intervals
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Lecture 8: Biostatistics: Detecting Differences and Correlations
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Lecture 9: Biostatistics: Poisson Analyses and Power
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Lecture 10: Environetics: Cause and Effect
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Lecture 11: Environetics: Study Design - Retrospective versus Prospective
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Lecture 12: Environetics: Putting it all together - Evaluating Studies
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Lecture 13: Quiz #1: Epidemiology-Biostatistics
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Lecture 14: Evaluating Environmental Causes of Mesothelioma
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Lecture 15: Quantitative Risk Assessment 1
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Lecture 16: Quantitative Risk Assessment 2
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Lecture 17: Toxicology 1
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Lecture 18: Toxicology 2
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Lecture 19: Toxicology 3
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Lecture 20: Toxicology 4
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Lecture 21: Toxicology 5
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Lecture 22: Quantitative Risk Assessment 3
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Lecture 23: Quantitative Risk Assessment 4
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Lecture 24: Quiz #2: QRA-Toxicology
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Lecture 25: Classroom Presentations of Team Projects
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Lecture 26: Classroom Presentations of Team Projects (cont.)
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. James Sherley, Dr. Laura Green, Prof. Steven Tannenbaum, 20.104J Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health (BE.104J), Spring 2005.
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