Forget the dreadful title—presumably devised to appeal to the neurotic tendency so well pandered to by the media—this is actually a superbly researched and scholarly book that traces the history of the author’s selection of relatively well-known occupational hazards. In saying relatively well-known, I mean that when I started reading I thought I knew quite a lot about most of them, having been involved in their research for some 35 years. The author’s thesis is that we have forgotten their history and that there is now a movement to debunk their importance, resulting in …