Hunter's diseases of occupations /
Donald Hunter.
- 8th ed / edited by P.A.B. Raffle ... [et al.].
- London : Edward Arnold, 1994.
- xi, 804 p. : col.ill ; 26 cm. + hbk.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section 1: General considerations -- The occupational history / W. R. Lee -- The role of government in preventing ill health at work / J. T. Carter -- State compensation for industrial injuries and prescribed diseases / F. G. Ward and A. Brooks -- Medicolegal reports / D. Kloss -- The epidemiology of occupational disease / David Coggon -- Section 2: Diseases associated with chemical agents -- Absorption of chemicals and mechanisms of detoxification / P. G. Blain -- Neurotoxic effects of workplace exposures / N. M. Cherry -- Metals / H. A. Waldron and A. Scott -- Organic chemical compounds: 9a Aliphatic chemicals / L. S. Levy and W. R. Lee -- 9b Aromatic chemicals / Tar-Ching Aw -- Gases / Peter J. Baxter -- Section 3: Diseases associated with physical agents -- Sound, infrasound and ultrasound / R. Hinchcliffe -- Vibration / W. Taylor -- Heat and cold / W. R. Keatinge, E. H. N. Oakley and A. P. H. Steel -- Raised barometric pressure / David H. Elliott -- Reduced barometric pressure / Peter Howard -- Working at high altitude / P.J.G. Foster -- Ionizing radiations / R. J. Berry -- Non-ionizing radiation and the eye / K. B. Mills, R. Brown and D. C. Saunders -- Extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields (EMF) / Leonard A. Sagan and Leeka I. Kheifets -- Inorganic dusts / P. C. Elmes -- Organic dusts: byssinosis / C. A. C. Pickering -- Occupational asthma / A. J. Newman Taylor -- Extrinsic allergic alveolitis / A. J. Newman Taylor -- Indoor air pollution / P. Sherwood Burge -- Section 4: Muscular and skeletal problems -- Repeated movements and repeated trauma / B. L. Hazleman -- Back pain / J. D. G. Troup -- Section 5: Diseases associated with microbiological agents -- Microbial disease / C. J. Ellis and I. S. Symington -- Biotechnology / A. N. Cottam -- Section 6: Mental ill-health at work -- Stress at work / Ben (C.) Fletcher and Fiona Jones -- Substance abuse and the workplace / Jonathan Chick -- Clinical assessment and management / Francis Creed and Elizabeth McCloy -- Section 7: Occupational cancer -- Biological mechanisms / Stanley Venitt -- Clinical and epidemiological aspects / J. M. Harrington and R. Saracci -- Section 8: Occupational diseases of the skin -- Occupational diseases of the skin / C. J. Stevenson -- Section 9: Reproduction and work -- Reproductive hazards at work / S. M. Barlow, A. D. Dayan and C. J. Powell.