In its 40 year history, AcHunter's Diseases of OccupationsAGBP has become the classic text on diseases caused by work. It is not a textbook of occupational medicine looking at how to change practices in the workplace, but is for clinicians dealing with specific patients.
As well as providing outlines for the assessment and treatment of individual patients, the 9th edition now also includes comprehensive coverage of 'environmental' diseases arising from industrial and agricultural activity. While continuing to cover the 'traditional' disorders, new areas of concern are also included, such as disorders connected with high-tech electronics industries and the effects of high levels of pesticides or hormones in the environment.
A brand new, internationally-renowned team of editors and contributors provides an international dimension to the new edition.
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Any book which has gone through eight editions in 40 years must surely be regarded as something of a classic, and this is certainly true of 'Hunter's Diseases of Occupations'. Uniformly readable, well-constructed and well referenced.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
I commend it to my hospital colleagues as both an authoritative text and a tome in which to dip and to browse. It should be in every Occupational Health centre.
Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service
Deserves to be in all hospital and medical school libraries. All doctors training in general medicine should read it.
Thorax
An excellent reference work that should be an essential part of all of the reference works available to occupational physicians, occupational nurses, general practioners and hospital specialists who routinely deal with patients who may have work-related conditions.
Management of Occupational Health, Safety & Enviro
The temptation to ""turn the page"" is unusually strong and I found myself reading late into the night. I learnt more about cancer from this chapter (Venitt) than I would have thought possible. An almost ideal book for somebody taking up the specialty of occupational medicine to read for both pleasure and instruction. Candidates for the Faculty examinations should certainly read it. An excellent book.
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
A fine book which should be stocked by all medical libraries...it is not unduly expensive...certainly deserves a place on the shelves of occupational physicians, and of other physicians or surgeons with a subspecialty interest in occupational disease. Some general practitioners and occupational nurses will also find it meets their needs. Occupational hygienists, safety practitioners and lawyers with an occupational health practice may also find it useful, though it does assume some medical knowledge. Congratulations to the editors and may there be many future editions.
The Annals of Occupational Hygiene
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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978-0-340-67750-6 (9780340677506)
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Section 1: General Considerations
The occupational history
Clinical investigation of patients with suspected occupational disease
Estimating the extent of occupational injuries and disease
Compensation schemes for industrial injuries and diseases
Medicolegal reports and the role of the expert witness
Section 2: Diseases Associated with Chemical Agents
Absorption of chemicals and mechanisms of detoxification
Metals
Gases
Pesticides and other agro-chemicals
Other organic chemical compounds: Aliphatic chemicals
Other organic chemical compounds: Aromatic chemicals
Section 3: Diseases Associated with Physical Agents
Sound, noise and the ear
Vibration
Heat and cold
Raised barometic pressure
Flying
Working at high altitude
Ionising radiations
Non-ionising radiations and the eye
Extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields (EMF)
Section 4: Diseases Related to Ergonomic and Mechanical Factors
Repeated movements and repeated trauma affecting the musculoskeletal system
Back pain and work
Section 5: Diseases Associated with Microbiological Agents
Occupational acquired infections: Microbial disease
Occupational zoonoses
Genetic manipulation and biotechnology
Section 6: Work and Mental Health
Bullying, post-traumatic stress disorder and violence in the workplace
Substance abuse and the workplace
Clinical assessment and management of mental ill health at work
Shift work and extended hours of work
Section 7: Occupational Lung Disorders
Imaging in occupational lung disease
Work and chronic air flow limitation
Byssinosis and other cotton-related diseases
Occupational asthma
Extrinsic allergic alveolitis
Pneumoconiosis and related disorders
Problems from indoor air in non-industrial workplaces
Section 8: Occupational Diseases of the Skin
Section 9: Occupational Cancer
Biological mechanisms and biomarkers
Clinical and epidemiological aspects
Section 10: Reproduction and Work
Workplace exposures and reproductive effects
Section 11: Systemic Effects of Workplace Exposures
Nephrotoxic effects of workplace exposures
Neurotoxic effects of workplace exposures
Hepatoxic effects of workplace exposures
Haemopoietic effects of workplace exposures: anaemias, leukaemias and lymphomas
Appendices - History
Cost effective approach to occupational safety and health information
Industrial process
Hazards in the health care industry
Evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans
CAS numbers for chemicals discussed.
