Hunter's Diseases of Occupations

by Baxter, Peter J.; Adams, Peter H.; Aw, Tar-Ching; Cockcroft, Anne; Harrington, J. Malcolm

• ISBN13: 9780340677506
• ISBN10: 0340677503
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-24
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

Hunter's Disease of Occupations is the leading book about diseases caused by occupations, and about the assessment, management, and treatment of the individual patient. The book is for clinicians dealing with specific patients, as well as for occupational physicians and other occupationalhealth professionals. This new edition continues this objective but also includes environmental diseases that arise from industrial or agricultural activity; therefore the book will also be of value to public health and environmental health physicians. The text is comprehensive, and continues toinclude the traditional disorders but now it also incorporates new areas of concern such as disorders connected with highly technological industries, and the effects of pesticides and other chemicals in the environment.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
PART 1 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
The Occupational History	3	(12)
WR Lee
T-C Aw
The role of laboratory techniques in the prevention and diagnosis of occupational and environmental diseases	15	(12)
H Kerr Wilson
PJ Baxter
Estimating the extent of occupational injuries and disease	27	(10)
D Coggon
Compensation schemes for industrial injuries and diseases	37	(20)
J Malcolm Harrington
Medicolegal reports and the role of the expert witness	57	(10)
DM Kloss
PART 2 DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH CHEMICAL AGENTS
Absorption of chemicals and mechanisms of detoxification	67	(14)
PG Blain
Metals	81	(42)
L Morgan
A Scott
Gases	123	(56)
PJ Baxter
Welding, fumes and inhalation fevers	179	(16)
GHG McMillan
Pesticides and other agrochemicals	195	(26)
AL Jones
AT Proudfoot
Aliphatic chemicals	221	(40)
LS Levy
Aromatic chemicals	261	(22)
T-C Aw
PART 3 DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH PHYSICAL AGENTS
Sound, noise and the ear	283	(24)
RT Ramsden
SR Saeed
Vibration (hand-arm and whole body)	307	(18)
PL Pelmear
Heat and cold	325	(18)
EHN Oakley
Raised barometric pressure	343	(18)
DH Elliott
Flying	361	(22)
TM Gibson
Working at high altitude	383	(14)
PJG Forster
Ionizing radiations	397	(22)
JR Harrison
C Sharp
Non-ionizing radiation and the eye	419	(20)
M Boulton
DH Sliney
Extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields	439	(14)
LI Kheifets
PART 4 DISEASES RELATED TO ERGONOMIC AND MECHANICAL FACTORS
Repeated movements and repeated trauma affecting the musculoskeletal system	453	(24)
K Palmer
C Cooper
Back pain and work	477	(12)
MIV Jayson
PART 5 DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH MICROBIOLOGICAL AGENTS
Occupation and infectious diseases	489	(32)
J Heptonstall
A Cockcroft
RMM Smith
Genetic modification and biotechnology	521	(18)
AM Finn
AJ Scott
GM Stave
PART 6 WORK AND MENTAL HEALTH
Bullying, post-traumatic stress disorder and violence in the workplace	539	(18)
M Lipsedge
Substance abuse and the workplace	557	(12)
JD Chick
Health and mental illness at work: clinical assessment and management	569	(12)
EL Teasdale
FH Creed
Shift work and extended hours of work	581	(12)
G Costa
S Folkard
JM Harrington
PART 7 OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISORDERS
Imaging in occupational lung disease	593	(14)
PM Taylor
Work and chronic air flow limitation	607	(14)
DJ Hendrick
Byssinosis and other cotton-related diseases	621	(12)
CAC Pickering
Occupational asthma	633	(20)
AJ Newman Taylor
Extrinsic allergic alveolitis	653	(10)
AJ Newman Taylor
Inorganic dusts	663	(46)
A Cockcroft
B Nemery
Problems from indoor air in non-industrial workplaces	709	(16)
P Sherwood Burge
PART 8 OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES OF THE SKIN
Occupational diseases of the skin	725	(16)
RJG Rycroft
PART 9 OCCUPATIONAL CANCER
Biological mechanisms and biomarkers	741	(50)
S Venitt
Clinical and epidemiological aspects	791	(32)
JM Harrington
P Boffetta
R Saracci
PART 10 REPRODUCTION AND WORK
Workplace exposures and reproductive effects	823	(20)
SM Barlow
AD Dayan
IK Stabile
PART 11 OTHER SYSTEMIC EFFECTS OF WORKPLACE EXPOSURES
Nephrotoxic effects of workplace exposures	843	(24)
GM Bell
HJ Mason
Neurotoxic effects of workplace exposures	867	(14)
PK Thomas
MJ Aminoff
Hepatotoxic effects of workplace exposures	881	(20)
TW Warnes
SK Jain
A Smith
Haemopoietic effects of workplace exposures: anaemias, leukaemias and lymphomas	901	(16)
A Yardley-Jones
A Gray
Appendix Diseases of occupations - a short history of their recognition and prevention	917	(10)
T Carter
Index	927