This is a substantially revised edition of Donald Hunter's book of occupational diseases, that provides an account of the investigation, differential diagnosis and management of the patient with occupational disease. All the chapters have been rewritten and updated, and additional material covers the molecular biology of occupational diseases, metabolism of toxic agents, behavioural toxicology and epidemiology of occupational disease as well as the legal and compensatory aspects.
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colour illustrations, halftones, line illustrations
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978-0-340-55173-8 (9780340551738)
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Professor of Medicine, University of Manchester
Department of Public Health Medicine, Cambridge
Emeritus Professor of Occupational Health, University of Manchester
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General considerations: The occupational history; The role of government in preventing ill health at work; State compensation for industrial injuries and prescribed diseases; Medicolegal reports; The epidemiology of occupational disease. Diseases associated with chemical agents: Absorption of chemicals and mechanisms of detoxification; Neurotoxic effects of workplace exposures; Metals; Organic compounds - Aliphatic chemicals and Aromatic chemicals; Gases. Diseases associated with physical agents: Sound, infrasound and ultrasound; Vibration; Heat and cold; Raised barometric pressure; Reduced barometric pressure; Working at high altitudes; Ionizing radiations; Non-ionizing radiations and the eye; Extremely low electric and magnetic fields (EMF); Inorganic dusts; Organic dusts - byssinosis; Occupational asthma; Extrinsic allergic alveolitis; Indoor air pollution. Muscular and skeletal problems: Repeated movements and repeated trauma; Back pain. Diseases associated with microbiological agents: Microbial disease; Biotechnology. Mental ill-health at work: Stress at work; Substance abuse and the workplace; Clinical assessment and management. Occupational cancer: Biological mechanisms; Clinical and epidemiological aspects. Occupational diseases of the skin: Occupational diseases of the skin. Reproduction and work: Reproductive hazards at work. Appendices: Evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans; CAS numbers for chemicals discussed.
