ABSTRACT
Toxicology usually focuses on the adverse effects of drugs and chemicals at the level of an organ or tissue and it is a research goal to identify ‘the target organ’. Techniques are available at the cellular and molecular levels to identify target organs and to assist in elucidating mechanisms of action. Toxicology, with foundations in many disparate disciplines in the chemical and biomedical sciences, has developed specialities which are so focused in approach that there is a danger that too great a divergence of knowledge may occur, at the expense of considering whole body interactions and consequences.
