Occupational Medicine

What does it mean to help save someone's life? How does it feel to nearly kill a patient? Can we keep our patients safe at night? In the face of ov...

The World Health Organization estimates that about 2.9 billion workers around the world are regularly exposed to risks at their workplace. Therefor...

In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, the...

POLITICS OF OCCUPATION-CENTRED PRACTICE Reflections on occupational engagement across cultures Politics of Occupation-Centred Practice: Reflections...

Occupational skin diseases are a field of increasing interest in today''''s dermatology. Due to rapid developments in several areas of modern indus...

Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversariespanic, exhaustion, heat, noiseand introduces us to the scientists ...

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize The most entertaining writer in science The Times, Books of the Year Wa...

Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversariespanic, exhaustion, heat, noiseand introduces us to the scientists ...

When the last deep coal mine in Britain closed in 2016 it marked the end of the most transformative era in the history of mankind. In writing this ...

Falls are considered as one of the accidents that take more loss of functionality, mainly in older adults. This book begins with a discussion on th...

This book highlights fire-fighting as one of the nation''''s most dangerous and hazardous jobs, with heart attacks, high physical stress levels, sp...