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Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2006-09-23 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309101697 |
In conjunction with drafting comprehensive legislation concerning compensation for health effects related to asbestos exposure (the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Act), the Senate Committee on the Judiciary directed the Institute of Medicine to assemble the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects. This committee was charged with addressing whether asbestos exposure is causally related to adverse health consequences in addition to asbestosis, mesothelioma, and lung cancer. Asbestos: Selected Cancers presents the committee's comprehensive distillation of the peer-reviewed scientific and medical literature regarding association between asbestos and colorectal, laryngeal, esophageal, pharyngeal, and stomach cancers.
Author | : Bozzano G Luisa |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2012-12-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0323140076 |
Asbestos and Disease provides a much-needed comprehensive compendium and presentation of accumulated information on asbestos and disease. Organized into five parts, this book begins with the nature, occurrence, properties, mining, milling, manufacturing, and use of asbestos minerals. Some chapters follow on the identification, quantification, and environmental distribution of asbestos fibers. This book also tackles the asbestotic and neoplastic effects of asbestos. The pathogenic mechanisms, prevention, and control of asbestos are also addressed. This work will provide nonspecialists with easily comprehensible and meaningful data that will assist them in their endeavors in this field.
Author | : Wayne K. R. Johnson |
Publisher | : ASTM International |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Air quality management |
ISBN | : |
"In this dissertation the issues associated with asbestos hazards, forms, uses associated diseases and the types of exposure to airbourne asbestos fibres, drawing together material from a number of sources. The managerial requirements are reviewed and summarised as an initial consideration in the establishment of a control programme. From this the principle of risk management develops and the management and control strategy for asbestos hazards forms, it includes elemenets such as removal, substitution, encapsulation and enclosure. Additionally, the peripheral areas of contractor selection, tendering control and education are discussed. The programme draws upon the latest Worksafe Australia Draft of Practice and Guidance notes." -- Abstract.
Author | : Victor L. Roggli |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2006-04-29 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 038721819X |
Pathology of Asbestos-Associated Diseases integrates the newest research and advances in its discussion of asbestos-induced diseases. Organized in 13 chapters, the book begins with background information on the mineralogy of asbestos, occupation and environmental exposure to asbestos, and asbestosis. A detailed discussion on mesothelioma includes a historical background, addresses etiologic considerations and epidemiology, pathologic features, differential diagnosis and treatment and prognosis. Guidelines for assessing and identifying asbestos-associated carcinomas of the lung, including histopathology and differential diagnosis, are discussed. The text also addresses the explosion of research in the area of molecular biology and the abundance of information bearing on the mechanisms by which asbestos causes disease. Chapters also cover cytopathology and experimental models of asbestos-related diseases. The diseases associated with asbestos have significant medico-legal implications, and there are two chapters dedicated to addressing the issue. More than 190 illustrations complement the text. An invaluable reference for the pathologist, pulmonologist, radiologist, and occupational medical practitioner interested in asbestos-related disease as well as malpractice attorneys needing an understanding of asbestos, the diseases it induces, prognosis and clinical implications.
Author | : Barry I. Castleman |
Publisher | : Wolters Kluwer |
Total Pages | : 918 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0735552606 |
Written by one of the leading asbestos experts for attorneys, occupational and environmental health professionals, and others in the field of toxic substances control, this updated resource provides a comprehensive examination of the public health history of asbestos. Includes extensive discussion of corporate knowledge and responsibility for asbestos hazards and detailed discussion of alternatives to asbestos.
Author | : Dale Keyes |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 1998-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 078814314X |
Provides guidance on controlling asbestos-containing materials (ACM) found in buildings. Provides a current summary of data on exposure to airborne asbestos; gives survey procedures for determining if ACM is present in buildings; explains how to establish a special operations and maintenance program in a building found to contain asbestos; reviews technical issues confronted when assessing the potential for exposure to airborne asbestos, in particular indoor settings; suggests a structured process for selecting a particular course of action, and much more. Commonly referred to as the Blue Book.
Author | : Jessica van Horssen |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-01-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0774828447 |
For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. Mining and manufacturing companies downplayed the risks to workers and the general public, but eventually, as the devastating nature of asbestos-related deaths became common knowledge, the industry suffered terminal decline. A Town Called Asbestos looks at how the people of Asbestos, Quebec, worked and lived alongside the largest chrysotile asbestos mine in the world. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community’s survival, they developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos’s proud history and reveals the challenges similar resource communities have faced – and continue to face today.
Author | : Andrea Peacock |
Publisher | : Big Earth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781555663193 |
A sequel to Civil Action-W.R. Grace company, owners of a vermiculite mine in that small Montana town, never told the miners what it knew: there was asbestos in the vermiculite, and the asbestos was destroying the miners lungs.
Author | : Rachel Maines |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813535751 |
This thought-provoking and controversial book challenges the recent vilification of asbestos by providing a historical perspective on Americans' changing perceptions about risk. Rachel Maines suggests that the very success of asbestos and other fire-prevention technologies in containing deadly blazes has led to a sort of historical amnesia about the very risks they were supposed to reduce. Asbestos and Fire is an important contribution to a larger debate that considers how the risks of technological solutions should be evaluated.
Author | : Ronald F. Dodson |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 2011-06-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1439809682 |
The first edition of Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects received critical acclaim due to the interdisciplinary nature of its content. Editors Ronald Dodson and Samuel Hammar have carefully kept this popular focus while updating and expanding the topics covered in the first edition with the help of internationally known experts. While there are hundreds of books available on many different aspects of asbestos, none contain the encyclopedic, comprehensive coverage you will find here. See What’s New in the Second Edition: Definitions of asbestos by different methodologies and the potential impact that those forms have on health Internationally accepted sampling/analytical schemes Findings of major asbestos-related diseases that continue to increase in most industrialized countries where asbestos is widely used Information on asbestos-induced diseases in biological systems Expanded regulations chapter Copiously illustrated with diagrams, tables, and photographs, including some in color, the book remains an interdisciplinary resource on the major issues in asbestos exposure and human health, with coverage that spans history, pathology, and epidemiology as well as sampling, analysis, and regulatory issues. The editors’ expertise and careful updating set this book apart, making it a comprehensive resource that interlinks diverse specialties. They provide an updated and expanded state-of-the-art discussion of important interdisciplinary factors associated with asbestos-related issues in an easy-to-use reference.