Occupation and Disease: How Social Factors Affect the Conception of Work-Related Disorders

by Allard E. Dembe

How and why do physicians come to regard certain medical disorders as work-related? Is this process merely a matter of gathering and interpreting empirical evidence or is it a complex social phenomenon? In this fascinating book, Allard Dembe studies the histories of three ailments now commonly considered to be work-related--cumulative trauma disorders (especially carpal tunnel syndrome), occupational back pain, and noise-induced hearing loss--and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300064365
• ISBN13: 9780300064360
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"