Sun Protection

A risk management approach

By: Brian Diffey

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Hardcover | 24 October 2017

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There is adequate evidence that exposure to solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation is a major aetiological factor in human skin cancer, but managing the risk of skin cancer does not necessarily mean avoiding exposure to the Sun's UV rays. Sun Protection differentiates itself from other texts by adopting a risk management approach to determine whether, how, and in what circumstances, harm might be caused, and to explore the feasibility of various strategies in controlling exposure to solar UV radiation. This multi-disciplinary book covers topics from climatology through human exposure to sunlight, as well as biological and clinical effects of UV radiation to physical and chemical strategies for photoprotection.

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What this book makes clear, is that it is impossible to reason about ultraviolet radiation and human health without a veritable encyclopaedia of details about the natural and human world, and the value of those constants. The author leaves us in no doubt, that if we are going to advise patients and populations on how ultraviolet radiation impacts on their health, we need to be as intimate with the solar constant as the thong bikini.

The book although modest in length covers all that any dermatologist or skin biologist could wish for: the fundamental physics of optical radiation; the problems of measurement; the short and long term effects of UVR on skin; the science behind sun protection; and the changinggeography of human exposure to ultraviolet radiation.

The book is not just suitable for biologists and dermatologists, but will be of interest to physical scientists and those working in the skin care industry (even those in marketing).

Before you next pretend that only UVA penetrates to the dermis, or that it is only UVB that varies seasonally, take a look at the figures in this book. Even Szilard would be happier now, his bath less disturbed: he could use an iPad and the digital version of this book in the bath.
Jonathan Rees 2018 Acta Dermato-Venereologica European Society of Dermatology and Psychiatry (United Kingdom)
-- Johnathon Rees * Acta Dermatologica *

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