Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases (eBook)

Dr. Susan Tarlo, MD, Gage Occupational and Environmental Health Unit, Department of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, CANADA. Professor Paul Cullinan, Professor in Respiratory Epidemiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute and Honorary Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital, London. Professor Benoit Nemery, MD PhD, Professor of Toxicology and Occupational Medicine, Department of Occupational, Environmental and Insurance Medicine and Pneumology, Research Unit of Lung Toxicology, Catholic University of Leuven, BELGIUM Editorial Board member, Journal of Inhalation Toxicology.

Contributors.

Preface.

Introduction (Paul Cullinan and Susan M. Tarlo).

Section 1: The personal environment.

1. Cosmetics and Personal Care Products in Lung Diseases
(Howard M. Kipen).

Section 2: The home environment.

2. Passive Smoking (Maritta S. Jaakkola).

3. Emissions related to cooking and heating (Debbie
Jarvis).

4. Cleaning and other household products (Jan-Paul
Zock).

5. Building materials and furnishing (Jouni J.K.
Jaakkola).

6. Mites, pets, fungi and rare allergens (Frederic de Blay,
Magdalena Posa, Gabrielle Pauli, Ashok Purohit).

7. Hobby pursuits (Paul D. Blanc).

Section 3: Other indoor environments.

8. Greta Smedje.

9. Secondhand smoke exposure and the health of hospitality
workers (Mark D. Eisner).

10. Health Effects of Environmental Exposures while in
Automobiles (Madeline A. Dillon and David B. Peden).

11. Indoor Sports (Harman S. Paintal and Ware G.
Kuschner).

Section 4: Work environment.

12. Agricultural environments and the Food Industry (Jakob
Hjort Bønløkke, Yvon Cormier and Torben
Sigsgaard).

13. Mining (R. L. Cowie).

14. Metal Industry and related jobs (including welding)
(William S. Beckett).

15. Automobile Maintenance, Repair and Refinishing
(Meredith Stowe and Carrie A. Redlich).

16. Automotive Industry (Kenneth Rosenman).

17. Wood and textile industries (Kjell Torén, Carrie A.
Redlich).

18. The electronics industry (Sherwood Burge).

20. The services industry (George L. Delclos, Lea Ann Tullis
and Arch I. Carson).

21. Construction (Gary M. Liss, Edward L. Petsonk and Kenneth
D. Linch).

22. Police, firefighters and the military (Aaron Thompson and
Stefanos N. Kales).

23. Office Workers and Teachers (Jean M. Cox-Ganser,
Ju-Hyeong Park and Kathleen Kreiss).

24. Research workers (Paul Cullinan).

25. Special environments (low altitude).

26. Special environments (high altitude).

Section 5: General environment.

27. Natural resources - wildland fires and volcanoes
(Sverre Vedal).

28. Traditional urban pollution (Sam Parsia, Amee Patrawalla
and William N. Rom).

29. Traffic related urban air pollution (Steven M. Lee and
Mark W. Frampton).

30. Outdoor sports (Kai-Håkon Carlsen).

Index.

"Occupational health physicians will find it an invaluable resource for clinical practice." (Occupational Medicine, 11 December 2011)

"The editors make good on their promise to provide a very useful clinical reference. This is a helpful companion to have when evaluating these patients.
I commend these editors on a very illuminating approach to an important problem." (Doody's, 30 September 2011)

"Unlike other books on the subject, this new volume approaches occupational and environmental lung disease from the starting point of the patient who comes to the physician with respiratory symptoms.." (Asiaing.com, 11 November 2010)