This comprehensive treatise of occupational lung disease is focused on the clinician's point of view. The editors have brought together expert contributors from around the world to give their experience of these conditions, in some cases peculiar to their own country, thus giving a truly global view.
The full spectrum of industrially-related disorders is covered, from the pneumonconioses, through occupational asthma and organic dust disease, to lung injury caused by chemical exposure and pulmonary carcinogenesis. In each case, the authors have been asked to provide information regarding regulatory problems, working conditions and screening for adverse health effects where relevant, in addition to a description of the medical aspects of the condition in question. The concerns surrounding litigation are also considered.
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Many of the chapters provide useful summaries of current knowledge, including information not readily available elsewhere.
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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978-0-412-73630-8 (9780412736308)
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Part One Introduction to Occupational Lung Disease
The world-wide problem of occupational lung disease
Pulmonary function and disability
Identification, monitoring and control of dust exposures
Defining workplace exposure to vapors and gases
Airways obstruction and occupational inorganic dust exposure
Workers' compensation for occupational lung disease: German-US parallels
Occupational health, occupational illness: tuberculosis, silicosis and HIV on the South African mines
Occupational lung disease in Brazil
Part Two Pneumoconioses
The diagnosis of pneumoconiosis and novel therapies
Mechanisms of pneumoconiosis
Lung diseases in coal workers
Coal workers' pneumoconiosis in developing nations
Quartz and silicosis
Silicosis in developing countries
Asbestos-related lung diseases in Russia
A national program to reduce the risk of asbestos-related disease in Finland
Man-made vitreous fibers and respiratory health effects
Lung disease from metal exposure
Part Three: Occupational Asthma, Respiratory Illness Due to Dust Exposures and Organic Dust Diseases
Assessment of airway responsiveness relevant to occupational exposures
Mechanisms of occupational asthma
Occupational asthma due to low-molecular weight compounds
Isocyanate-induced asthma
Occupational asthma due to high-molecular weight agents
Urban epidemic asthma
The effects of cotton dust on the lung
Byssinosis in India and the developing world
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Acute toxic chemicl exposures: mechanisms and outcomes
Part Four: Pulmonary Carcinogenesis
Lung carcinogenesis: molecular and cellular mechanisms
Occupationally induced pulmonary malignancy (excluding asbestos-related cancers).
