Occupational Lung Diseases

Revised and updated, this third edition provides practical, up-to-date guidelines for the prevention and management of occupational lung diseases. It features discussions of work-related pulmonary diseases from different perspectives. Clinicians and other professionals responsible for the care and safety of workers should find advice on investigation, the medico-legal aspects, pulmonary physiology including exercise testing, the epidemiological approach, pathology and occupational hygiene, respiratory protection, and much more. The full range of industrial lung diseases and disorders are covered, from pneumoconioses, including industrial bronchitis and occupation asthma, to occupationally induced infectious disease and lung cancer. This reference also provides historical context for each topic, tracing the development of knowledge from the earliest discoveries to the latest advances.