Hunter's Diseases of Occupations, tenth edition

Summary:
Winner of the 2011 BMA book awards: medicine category

In the five decades since its first publication, Hunter's Diseases of Occupations has remained the pre-eminent text on diseases caused by work, universally recognized as the most authoritative source of information in the field. It is an important guide for doctors in all disciplines who may encounter occupational diseases in their practice, covering topics as diverse as work and stress, asbsetos-related disease, working at high altitude and major chemical incidents, many of which are highly topical.

The Tenth Edition of Hunter's Diseases of Occupations has been fully revised and updated, presenting all practitioners considering an occupational cause for a patient's condition with comprehensive coverage of work-related diseases as they present in modern and developing industralised societies. It draws on the wide-ranging and in-depth clinical knowledge and experience, and acadmic excellence, of top experts in the field.

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• New edition of the classic text on occupational disease
• Fully revised and updated, with an expanded international authorship
• Accompanying website at http://www.hodderplus.com/hunters featuring downloadable versions of the figures from the book plus 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 MD MSc FRCP FFOM
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 MB PhD FRCP FRCPC FFOM FFPHM
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 MD HIH FRCP FFOM
Senior Research Fellow, CIET group; Visiting Professor, Autonomous University of Guerrero, Mexico

Paul Durrington MD FRCP FRCPath FAHA FACP FMedSci
Honorary Professor of Medicine, Consultant Physician, Cardiovascular Research Group, School of Biomedicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

J Malcolm Harrington CBE MSc MD FRCP FFOM FMedSci
Emeritus Professor of Occupational Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Readership:
Core readership: All practitioners treating occupational conditions; public health physicians, consultants preparing medicolegal reports; Supplementary readership: Lawyers handling claims for occupati