- General considerations
- Definition and classification
- Historical aspects
- Epidemiological approaches and natural history
- Genetics
- Pathophysiology
- Animal models
- Assesment and management
- Clinical assessment and management
- Immunological and inflammatory assessments
- Physiological assessment
- Occupational challenge tests
- Environmental monitoring: general considerations
- Environmental monitoring of protein aeroallergens
- Environmental monitoring of chemical agents
- Medicolegal aspects, compensation aspects
- Evaluation of impairment/disability
- Surveillance and prevention
- Specific agents causing occupational asthma
- Enzymes
- Baking products
- Animals, insects, and shellfishes
- Latex
- Other high-molecular weight protein agents
- Polyisocyanates and their prepolymers
- Wood dusts
- Metals
- Other chemical substances
- Specific disease entities and variants
- Reactive airways dysfunction syndrome and other types of irritant-induced asthma
- Asthma exacerbated at work
- Asthma-like syndromes
- Copd due to occupational exposure
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- Building related illnesses
- Upper airways involvement
- Skin involvement
- Conclusion and research needs
- David I. Bernstein, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Moira Chan-Yeung, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Jean-Luc Malo, Hopital du Sacre-Couer, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- I. Leonard Bernstein, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
"[this source] continues to be the definitive resource on this topic for the medical and legal community. The chapters are comprehensive, extensively referenced, and readable. The book can provide everyone from the basic science researcher to the respiratory therapist and technician with a wealth of information."
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"The editors have gathered the experience of many experts from different parts of the world. They provide the basis for discussions of the status of present research, preventive strategies, and goals for the future. Because of the steady increase in knowledge, this book is a must for occupational physicians, for health care workers in industrial and public institutions, and for medical libraries."
The New England Journal of Medicine (for previous edition)
"meets the highest expectations [...] The various chapters [...] offer an authoritative guide to the particular topics [...] readers will probably consider it indispensable."
Allergy (for previous edition)
"a comprehensive review of clinically relevant topics in occupational asthma written by nationally and internationally recognized experts in the field. This is an outstanding reference for clinicians, clinical scientists, or clinical fellows with an interest in work-related asthma."
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Reviews to Review Tab: Books, Films, Tapes, & Software
"The editors have gathered the experience of many experts from different parts of the world. They provide the basis for discussions of the status of present research, preventive strategies, and goals for the future. Because of the steady increase in knowledge, this book is a must for occupational physicians, for health care workers in industrial and public institutions, and for medical libraries."
The New England Journal of Medicine (for previous edition)
"meets the highest expectations [...] The various chapters [...] offer an authoritative guide to the particular topics [...] readers will probably consider it indispensable."
Allergy (for previous edition)
"a comprehensive review of clinically relevant topics in occupational asthma written by nationally and internationally recognized experts in the field. This is an outstanding reference for clinicians, clinical scientists, or clinical fellows with an interest in work-related asthma."
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