Topics covered range from fundamental principles of toxicology through environmental toxicology and risk management to consideration of ethics.
The prime aim is to provide chemistry teachers with a teaching resources on the fundamentals of toxicology from which they can select material appropriate for their own local requirements, supplementing it with examples relevant to the students' experiences. To provide maximum flexibility a Microsoft PowerPoint format was chosen. This approach results in a series of files which can be used immediately in the form of computer presentations for either formal teaching or guided study. They can also be used to print handouts and make slides and overheads.
THE ESSENTIAL TOXICOLOGY CD-ROM by J. H. Duffus (Edinburgh Centre for Toxicology, Scotland) and H. G. J. Worth (The Kings Mill Centre for Health, Care Services, Sutton-in Ashfield, England) will be available on-line, free of charge, in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese on a joint UNESCO/IUPAC website beginning 2004.
At present used for UNESCO/IUPAC toxicology courses, the CD-ROM carries the educational material in two different formats.
It is intended that the two black-and-white formats PDF and PowerPoint may be easily used by any teacher to prepare their own materials suitable for their own particular students. Thus selected content may be printed out in a black-and-white format as handouts and duplicated for issuing to the students. Similarly it should be relatively easy for the teacher to add extra material to these presentations to ensure the appropriate content for their own students. The coloured version is designed with computer presentation in mind and particularly with the intention of the material being used for self-study. As with all this material, the presentation should be altered using the PowerPoint programme to suit the exact requirements of the course in which it is to be used.
