Toxicology in Antiquity will set the tone for the series, History of Toxicology and Environmental Health, and start at the very beginning, historically speaking, with a look at toxicology in ancient times.
1. Toxicology in Ancient Egypt
2. The Death of Cleopatra: Suicide by Snakebite or Poisoned by Her
Enemies?
3. Mithradates of Pontus and His University Antidote
4. Theriac Magna: The Glorious Cure-All Remedy
5. Nicander, Theriaka and Alexipharmaka: Venoms, Poisons and
Literature
6. Alexander the Great: A Questionable Death
7. Harmful Botanicals
8. The Case Against Socrates and His Execution
9. The Oracle at Delphi: The Pythia and the Pneuma, Intoxicating
Gas Finds and Hypotheses
10. The Ancient Gates to Hell and Their Relevance to Geogenic
CO2
11. Lead Poisoning and the Downfall of Rome
12. Poisons, Poisoning and Poisoners in Ancient Rome
Philip Wexler has written and edited numerous publications related
to toxicology and toxico-informatics, as well as taught and
otherwise lectured globally on these topics. He has been
Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Toxicology including
the current, 4th edition (2023) since its inception as well as
Information Resources in Toxicology (Elsevier. 5th ed. 2020), and
Chemicals, Environment, Health: A Global Management Perspective
(CRC Press/Taylor and Francis. 2011). He has served as Associate
Editor for Toxicology Information and Resources for Elsevier's
journal, Toxicology and edited special issues on Digital
Information and Tools. Phil is also overseeing a monographic series
on Toxicology History. Volumes have been published on Antiquity,
the Middle Ages and Renaissance, modern clinical toxicology, risk
assessment, alternative test methods, food and nutrition, and
disasters, with more in the planning stages. He is a
co-Editor-in-Chief of the Taylor and Francis journal, Global
Security: Health, Science, and Policy and a past recipient of the
US Society of Toxicology’s (SOT) Public Communications Award.
Phil recently retired from a long federal career as a Technical
Information Specialist at the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM)
Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program, within its
Specialized Information Services Division (SIS). His initial
position at NLM was as a Fellow of its Associate Program and early
work included a brief stint in the Reference Services Section. A
recipient of the NLM Regents Award for Scholarly or Technical
Achievement and the Distinguished Technical Communication Award of
the Washington chapter of the Society for Technical Communication,
he was team leader for the development of the ToxLearn online
multi-module tutorials, a joint activity with the SOT. Phil had
also been project officer for the LactMed file on drugs and
lactation, and the IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System) and
ITER (International Toxicity Estimates for Risk) risk assessment
databases.
Additionally, Phil had been the guiding force behind, and federal
liaison to, the World Library of Toxicology, Chemical Safety, and
Environmental Health (WLT) prototype, a free global Web portal that
provided the scientific community and public with links to major
government agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities,
professional societies, and other groups addressing issues related
to toxicology, public health, and environmental health prior to its
migration to the INND/Toxipedia group. This multilingual tool, fed
by information from a roster of international Country
Correspondents, has been praised as a successful test resource for
overcoming barriers to the sharing of information between
countries, enhancing collaboration, and minimizing duplication.
Currently on hiatus, it awaits a visionary funding source to become
operational.
A trustee of the Toxicology Education Foundation (TEF), Phil had
previously served as its federal liaison. He is a past Chair of
SOT’s World Wide Web Advisory Team, and active in its Ethical,
Legal, Forensics, and Social Issues Specialty Section. He was a
member of the Education and Communications Work Group of the
CDC/ATSDR’s National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical
Exposure. A co-developer of the Toxicology History Room, he is
co-founder and was federal liaison to the Toxicology History
Association. For many years he organized and emceed the popular
Toxicology Quiz Bowl at the annual SOT meetings.
In addition to pursuing toxicology-related activities in his
retirement, Phil is happy to have more time to embrace other
lifelong interests. He is the author of five poetry collections, a
mosaic artist, and a cactus and succulent enthusiast.
"Phil Wexler’s latest book...is riveting. The book focuses on toxicology/poisons/venoms/religion and the surrounding mystery found in antiquity to the fall of the Roman Empire." --International journal of Toxicology
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