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Industrial medicine desk reference
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New York : Chapman & Hall, 1986
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9780412011016
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Increased public concern over the control of environmental forces and industrial hazards has led to awareness for the need for improved conditions for all who work. Industry has expanded and developed new p' ducts and new methods. A great many occupational diseases have accompanied this progress. Too much of the present data and knowledge have been obtained following accidents or sad experience. Thousands of women have died, have become acutely or chronically ill, and still others permanently disabled. Workers themselves have become keenly aware of potential hazards on their jobs, and public interest has developed to a point where articles are appearing on front pages of newspapers, business journals, and medical journals specifically related to occupational medicine. Special studies of chemicals, processes, and practices have been initiated by government agencies and by industry itself. Knowledge of increased liver cancer in vinyl chloride workers, the discovery of kepone, a pesticide produced under poor working conditions causing neurologic damage, the problems with asbestos, and the alarming occupational health problems reported among workers manufacturing "DBCP" (dibromochloropropane), a nematocid that has caused reproductive alterations in men from oligospermia to sterility, are well known. Not only have sterility and fertility become serious grounds for concern but also mutagenesis and teratogenesis, in addition to public anxieties about occupational carcinogens, a cause for worry.


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Booklist Review

Libraries are often called upon to answer questions dealing with occupational medicine or medical hazards of the workplace such as suspected carcinogens or other toxic substances. Academic and large public libraries will find that the Industrial Medicine Desk Reference meets this need in many cases, serving as an encyclopedic dictionary of chemicals and health disorders associated with the workplace. It also includes entries for signs and symptoms of these disorders, materials, occupations, and manufacturing processes that may have associated health hazards. Entries are arranged alphabetically and are usually one-half page or less except for entries for major health disorders that may go on for two or more pages. These entries, such as the ones for cancer, asthma, and cardiovascular diseases, may have associated tables such as the ``List of Occupational Cancer Producing Agents'' within the entry Cancer, Occupational. See and see also references for entries are used throughout. Entries for chemicals cite current worker exposure limits provided by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and other government agencies. This book includes only those chemicals most commonly found in the workplace. For more detailed listings of more than 200,000 chemicals, consult the Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS) put out by NIOSH and available from the GPO. The Industrial Medicine Desk Reference, as was intended, is a source of accurate and concise information for health practitioners, business and plant managers, engineers, and others who are likely to come across hazardous substances in the workplace. Recommended for the libraries that serve them.


Choice Review

Although several reference books give more extensive information on industrial medicine (Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety, ed. by Luigi Parmeggiani, 3rd rev. ed., 1983; 1972 ed., CH, Apr '73, and F.A. Patty, Patty's Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, 2nd ed., 1985), this work is unique because it is unusually concise in defining 900 diseases and chemicals that can arise from the industrial environment. Entries for chemicals include the formula, definition, health hazards, and standards in place by various agencies. Entries for diseases provide clear definitions and list exposed groups, symptoms, etc. This work is also useful because it has entries for certain occupations. Unfortunately, the authors do not define what they include in their coverage of industrial medicine. Surprisingly, there is no entry for radon even though this gas is a definite risk for uranium miners and currently is a topic of great general interest. Because of this work's multiple access points and clear and concise definitions, it is recommended for academic, medical, and special libraries.-N. Kupferberg, Brooklyn College, CUNY


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