Occupational lung disease: an international perspective.
Occupational lung disease: an international perspective. Edited by: D E Banks, J E Parker. (Pp 528; £85). 1998. London: Chapman and Hall. ISBN 0412 736 306.
This multi-author text book is divided into four parts. The introduction includes chapters on the world wide problem, lung function, occupational hygiene, compensation, and specific issues in South Africa and Brazil. The second and third parts consider the pneumoconioses and asthma, airway disease and alveolitis, and the fourth lung cancer. Many of the chapters provide useful summaries of current knowledge, including information not readily available elsewhere on, for …
