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Occupation and Disease: How Social Factors Affect the Conception of Work-Related Disorders

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Occupation and Disease: How Social Factors Affect the Conception of Work-Related Disorders - Dembe, Allard E, Professor
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Focussing on the histories of three ailments -- cumulative trauma disorders (especially carpal tunnel syndrome), occupational back pain, and noise-induced hearing loss -- this book provides "a fascinating account of how physicians and society come to recognize emerging diseases. Beautifully illustrated with splendid historical examples." -- Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine "A major contribution to the historical sociology of industrial illness." -- Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of ...

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Occupation and Disease: How Social Factors Affect the Conception of Work-Related Disorders 1996, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300064360

Hardcover