Asthma in the Workplace, Second Edition,

Fully updated to include crucial advances in the subject since publication of the First Edition, the Second Edition of this comprehensive volume reviews all aspects of occupational asthma, including disease mechanisms, clinical diagnosis and treatment, and categories of causative agents. Includes new and expanded material on hypersensitivity pneumonitis and organic dust toxic syndromes sick building syndrome occupational rhinitis and urticaria, skin problems, and genetics of occupational asthma animal, enzyme, and flour allergies latex allergy irritant-induced asthma (RADS) Featuring contributions from over 45 international authorities in the field-nearly 20 more than the First Edition-Asthma in the Workplace, Second Edition evaluates medicolegal and compensation issues discusses inhalation challenge testing addresses the social outcomes of workers disabled by asthma explores environmental exposure to causative chemicals and protein allergens and more! With numerous references, tables, drawings, photographs, and micrographs, Asthma in the Workplace, Second Edition will be welcomed by clinical immunologists and allergists, pulmonologists, occupational health and thoracic physicians, industrial hygienists, internists, toxicologists, immunotoxicologists, epidemiologists, aerosol scientists, lawyers involved with compensation issues, and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines.

Table of Contents:
General Considerations Definition and Classification of Asthma, I. Leonard Bernstein, David I. Bernstein, Moira Chan-Yeung, and Jean-Luc Malo Historical Aspects of Occupational Asthma, Jack Pepys and I. Leonard Bernstein Epidemiological Approaches in Occupational Asthma, Margaret R. Becklake, Jean-Luc Malo, and Moira Chan-Yeung Genetics and Occupational Asthma, Alan Lockhart and Anthony J. Newman-Taylor Pathophysiology, Leonardo Fabbri, Piera Boschetto, Gaetano Caramori, and Cristina Elisabetta Mapp Animal Models of Occupational Asthma, Katherine Sarlo and Meryl Karol Natural History of Occupational Asthma, Moira Chan-Yeung and Jean-Luc Malo Assessment and Management Clinical Assessment and Management of Occupational Asthma, David I. Bernstein Immunological Evaluation of Occupational Asthma, Leslie C. Grammer and Roy Patterson Nonspecific Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness, Anthony Johnson and Moira Chan-Yeung Physiological Assessment: Serial Measurements of Lung Function, Sherwood Burge and Gianna Moscato Occupational Challenge Tests, André Cartier and Jean-Luc Malo Environmental Monitoring of Protein Aeroallergens, Charles E. Reed, Mark Swanson and James T. Li Environmental Monitoring of Chemical Agents, Jacques Lesage and Guy Perrault Medicolegal and Compensation Aspects, I. Leonard Bernstein, Helen Keskinen, and Jean-Luc Malo Evaluation of Impairment/Disability in Subjects with Occupational Asthma, Jean-Luc Malo, Paul Blanc, and Moira Chan-Yeung Surveillance and Prevention, David I. Bernstein and Gary M. Liss Specific Disease Entities Upper Airways Involvement, David C. Christiani and Jean-Luc Malo Occupational Urticaria, Boris D. Lushniak and C. G. Toby Mathias Enzymes, Jonathan A. Bernstein and William Gerald Gaines, Jr. Occupational Asthma in the Baking Industry, Dick Heederik and Anthony J. Newman-Taylor Animal, Insect, and Shellfish Allergy, Susan Gordon and Anthony J. Newman-Taylor Latex Allergy, Oliver Vandenplas, B. Lauren Charous, and Susan M. Tarlo High-Molecular-Weight Protein Agents, David I. Bernstein and Jean-Luc Malo Polyisocyanates and Their Prepolymers, Christina Elisabetta Mapp, I. Leonard Bernstein, Brian T. Butcher, and Leonardo M. Fabbri Acid Anhydrides, C. Raymond Zeiss, Roy Patterson, and Katherine M. Venables Metals, I. Leonard Bernstein, Benoit Nemery, and Stuart M. Brooks Other Chemical Substances Causing Occupational Asthma, Jean-Luc Malo and I. Leonard Bernstein Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata) and Other Wood Dusts, Moira Chan-Yeung Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome, or Irritant-Induced Asthma, Denyse Gautrin, I. Leonard Bernstein and Stuart M. Brooks Cotton and Other Textile Dusts, James A. Merchant, I. Leonard Bernstein, and Anthony Pickering Grain Dust-Induced Lung Diseases, Moira Chan-Yeung, Susan M. Kennedy, and David A. Schwartz Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Organic Dust Toxic Syndromes, Yvon Cormier, Hal B. Richerson, and Cecile S. Rose Building-Related Illnesses, Dick Menzies Compendiums Tables of Major Inducers of Occupational Asthma, Moira Chan-Yeung and Jean-Luc Malo The United States National Exposure Survey (NOES) Database, Joseph A. Seta, Randy O. Young, David H. Pederson, I. Leonard Bernstein, and David I. Bernstein Asthma Works: The English Version of the Telematic Information System (Minitel) on Occupational Asthma, Jonathan A. Bernstein, Jean-Luc Malo, Henriette Dhivert-Donadio, Phillippe Godard, Brigitte Perrin, Jean Bousquet, François-Bernard Michel Appendix: Occupational History Form