Occupation and Disease.

This is the story of the scribe, the telegrapher, the typewriter, and the computer - speckled with such interesting characters as Astley Cooper, Guillaume Dupuytren, and Henry Finkelstein, who helped found the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York. Allard Dembe sets the theme for his book by developing a pluralistic model of occupational disease involving the individual, the health care worker, the work environment, and die many social factors that might affect this. He then develops this theme with three major occupational diseases: cumulative trauma disorders of the hands and wrists, back pain, and noise induced hearing loss. These three share a history dating back to the …