Hunter's Diseases of Occupations

General considerations: The occupational history; The role of government in preventing ill health at work; State compensation for industrial injuries and prescribed diseases; Medicolegal reports; The epidemiology of occupational disease. Diseases associated with chemical agents: Absorption of chemicals and mechanisms of detoxification; Neurotoxic effects of workplace exposures; Metals; Organic compounds - Aliphatic chemicals and Aromatic chemicals; Gases. Diseases associated with physical agents: Sound, infrasound and ultrasound; Vibration; Heat and cold; Raised barometric pressure; Reduced barometric pressure; Working at high altitudes; Ionizing radiations; Non-ionizing radiations and the eye; Extremely low electric and magnetic fields (EMF); Inorganic dusts; Organic dusts - byssinosis; Occupational asthma; Extrinsic allergic alveolitis; Indoor air pollution. Muscular and skeletal problems: Repeated movements and repeated trauma; Back pain. Diseases associated with microbiological agents: Microbial disease; Biotechnology. Mental ill-health at work: Stress at work; Substance abuse and the workplace; Clinical assessment and management. Occupational cancer: Biological mechanisms; Clinical and epidemiological aspects. Occupational diseases of the skin: Occupational diseases of the skin. Reproduction and work: Reproductive hazards at work. Appendices: Evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans; CAS numbers for chemicals discussed.