When a patient develops a rheumatic disease one of the first questions asked is “why me?” The answer is, of course, complex. For almost all rheumatic disorders there are genetic factors, host factors, and environmental factors. This book focuses predominantly on non-host environmental factors as triggers of rheumatic disorders. These are described as foods, drugs, chemicals, biologicals, radiation, noise, and emotional and physical stresses. The book is aimed at physicians and other healthcare providers, biomedical scientists, epidemiologists, toxicologists, regulators, law makers, and members of the legal profession. This is …