Occupational Pulmonary Disease

Contents: Standardizing spirometry - problems and prospects; Evaluation of impairment and disability in occupational lung disease; Cardiopulmonary exercise testing to assess respiratory impairment in occupational lung disease; Controversies in asbestos-related lung cancer; Occupational lung cancer; Acute inhalational injury; Silicosis; Respiratory effects of hard-metal dust exposure; Immunologic evaluation of occupational lung disease; Occupational asthma - natural history, evaluation and management; The pleural manifestations of asbestos exposure; Agricultural exposures to organic dusts.