We retrospectively evaluated the effect of the Loma Prieta earthquake on calls to 2 designated regional poison control centers (San Francisco and Santa Clara) in the area. In the immediate 12 hours ...after the earthquake, there was an initial drop (31%) in call volume, related to telephone system overload and other technical problems. Calls from Bay Area counties outside of San Francisco and Santa Clara decreased more dramatically than those from within the host counties where the poison control centers are located. In the next 2 days, each poison control center then handled a 27% increase in call volume. Requests for information regarding safety of water supplies and other environmental concerns were significantly increased. The number of cases of actual poisoning exposure decreased, particularly poison and drug ingestions in children. Most calls directly related to the earthquake included spills and leaks of hazardous materials and questions about water and food safety. Regional poison control centers play an essential role in the emergency medical response to major disasters and are critically dependent on an operational telephone system.
Book reviews Nothstine, William L.; Nathan, Leonard; Kennedy, William J. ...
Quarterly Journal of Speech,
11/1/1987, Volume:
73, Issue:
4
Book Review
Peer reviewed
INVENTION AS A SOCIAL ACT. By Karen Burke LeFevre. Foreword by Frank J. D'Angelo. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987; pp. xiv + 173. paper $8.50.
PLATO AND ARISTOTLE ON POETRY. By ...Gerald F. Else. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Peter Burian. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986; pp. xi-221. $27.00.
HUMANIST POETICS: THOUGHT, RHETORIC, AND FICTION IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND. By Arthur F. Kinney. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1986; pp. xiv + 529. $35.00.
ORATORS & PHILOSOPHERS: A HISTORY OF THE IDEA OF LIBERAL EDUCATION. By Bruce A. Kimball. Foreword by Joseph L. Featherstone. New York: Columbia University, Teachers College Press, 1986; pp. xix + 293. $19.95.
THE AMERICAN NEWNESS: CULTURE AND POLITICS IN THE AGE OF EMERSON. By Irving Howe. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1986; pp. 1 + 99. $12.50.
DE LA METAPHYSIQUE A LA RHETORIQUE. Edited by Michel Meyer. Brussels: University of Brussels Press, 1986; pp. 1 + 208. Paper 1100 FB ($30).
INTRODUCTION TO RHETORICAL THEORY. By Gerard A. Hauser. New York: Harper & Row, 1986; pp. xi + 209. paper $10.95.
ICONOLOGY: IMAGE, TEXT, IDEOLOGY. By W. J. T. Mitchell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986; pp. x + 226. $20.00.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE UNITED STATES. By Thomas L. Tedford. Foreword by Franklyn S. Haiman. New York: Random House, 1985; pp. 416. paper $16.00. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985; xvii + 493. $29.95.
MURDER, COURTS, AND THE PRESS: ISSUES IN FREE PRESS/FAIR TRIAL. By Peter E. Kane. Foreword by Franklyn S. Haiman. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986. pp. xiv + 96. $10.95; paper $6.95.
IMPACT: HOW THE PRESS AFFECTS FEDERAL POLICYMAKING. By Martin Linsky. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1986; pp. xvii + 260. $19.95.
HOW THE PRESS AFFECTS FEDERAL POLICYMAKING: SIX CASE STUDIES. By Martin Linsky, Jonathan Moore, Wendy O'Donnell, and David Whitman. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1986; pp. ix + 373. $25.00.
THE MEDIA ELITE. By S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman, and Linda S. Lichter. Bethesda: Adler and Adler, 1986; pp. ix + 352. $19.95.
COMMUNICATIONS DEREGULATION: THE UNLEASHING OF AMERICA'S COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY. By Jeremy Tunstall. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986; pp. xi + 324. $24.95.
PROPAGANDA AND PERSUASION. By Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1986; pp. 1 + 244. $25.00; paper $12.95.
MEANING AND MODERNITY: SOCIAL THEORY IN THE PRAGMATIC ATTITUDE. By Eugene Rochberg-Halton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986; pp. xiv + 299. $40.00; paper $14.95.
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