Hunter's Diseases of Occupations

In the five decades since its first publication, Hunter's Diseases of Occupations has been become the pre-eminent text on diseases caused by work, universally recognized as the most authoritative source of information. This new edition contains an up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of occupational diseases as they present in modern industrialized societies, combined with unrivalled clinical knowledge and experience. In developing this fully revised and updated 10th edition, the editors have been mindful of the ever-changing nature of work, and have organized the text to reflect the realities of the modern workplace. New feaures include chapters on bioterrorism and the history of occupational medicine, and expanded sections on diagnosis and occupational toxicology. The ebook edition is in VitalBookTM Bookshelf – an ebook reader which allows you to: · download the ebook to your computer or access it anywhere with an internet browser; · search the full text of all of the ebooks that you hold on your bookshelf for instant access to the information you need; · link through from references to PubMed; · make and share notes and highlights on your ebooks; · copy and print text and figures; · customize your view by changing font size and layout. * New edition of the classic text on occupational disease * Fully revised and updated, with an expanded international authorship * Accompanying CD-ROM with searchable text from the book, images from the book and selected images from the Donald Hunter archive * Featuring new chapters including a history of occupational medicine Table of Contents: Donald Hunter and the history of occupational health: Precedents and perspectives The changing face of occupational disease The occupational history Assessment of exposure Biological monitoring Compensation schemes Epidemiological methods and evidence-based occupational medicine Attribution of disease Medicolegal reports and the role of the expert witness Occupational toxicology: General principles Risk assessment and exposure modelling Introduction Aluminium Antimony Arsenic Beryllium Cadmium Chromium Cobalt Copper Gold Lead Manganese Mercury Molybdenum Nickel Phosphorus Platinum group metals Silver Tin Tungsten Uranium Vanadium Zinc Thallium Magnesium Iron Polonium Gases: General (inc. RADS (Ayres)) War/terrorist gases including cyanide The semiconductor industry Welding, fumes and inhalational fevers Pesticides and other agrochemicals Organic chemicals Noise Hand–arm vibration syndrome Whole body vibration Heat and cold Diving and tunnelling Working at high altitude Flying and spaceflight Ionizing radiation Non-ionizing radiation and the eye Extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields Radiofrequency fields Repeated movements and repeated trauma affecting the musculoskeletal system Occupational back pain Zoonoses Occupational infections Bioterrorism Genetic modification and biotechnology Work and psychiatric disorder Psychosocial model of workplace mental illness (working title) Substance abuse and the workplace Imaging in occupational lung disease Work and chronic air flow limitation Occupational asthma Byssinosis and other cotton-related diseases Extrinsic allergic alveolitis Health effects related to non-industrial workplace indoor environments General aspects Asbestos and asbestos-related diseases Epidemiology of asbestos-related diseases Other fibrous mineral dusts Non-fibrous mineral dusts Silica and silica-related diseases Epidemiology of silica-related diseases Other non-fibrous mineral dusts Metal dusts and fumes (two sections combined) Berylliosis Skin Occupational cancers Nephrotoxic effects of workplace exposures Neurotoxic effects of workplace exposures Hepatotoxic effects of workplace exposures Workplace exposures and reproductive health Haemopoietic effects of workplace exposures: Anaemias, leukaemias and lymphomas Shift and extended hours of work Health effects of ultrafine/nanoparticles Management of the stress at work patient Introduction to work and stress About the Author(s): Peter J Baxter, Consultant Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK Tar-Ching Aw, Professor and Chair, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE; Adjunct Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; Visiting Professor, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, UK Anne Cockcroft, Senior Research Fellow, CIET group; Visiting Professor, Autonomous University of Guerrero, Mexico Paul Durrington, Honorary Professor of Medicine, Consultant Physician, Cardiovascular Research Group, School of Biomedicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK J Malcolm Harrington, Emeritus Professor of Occupational Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK