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Research challenges in occupational and environmental medicine until 2030
Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
Correspondence to:
Maria Albin, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; maria.albin@med.lu.se
Accepted 1 August 2008
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My work in munitions plants was interrupted toward the end of 1917 by a summons to Washington ...The complaint which led to my being sent on this new job came from the limestone cutters of Bedford Indiana.... The condition of which the men complained – and doubtless still do – is a spastic anaemia of certain fingers, the ones most tightly cramped around the tool (...). There is a clear line of demarcation between the dead part and the normal part. I had provided myself with outlines on paper of right and left hands and when I examined a man I would make his record with a blue pencil on one of the sheets.Alice Hamilton
Thomas C Erren calls for identification of research challenges in occupational and environmental medicine during the two coming decades, and suggests useful criteria for it (see page 5).1 We will also focus on the
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