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The diseases of occupations.

London: English University Press, 1955.

A classic textbook on the subject with valuable historical chapters and references. Hunter put the text through six editions to 1978. The work was rewritten as Hunter’s Diseases of occupations, ed. by P.A.B. Raffle, W.R. Lee, R.I. McCallum, and R. Murray (1987). A 10th edition edited by Peter J Baxter, Tar-Ching Aw, Anne Cockcroft, Paul Durrington, J Malcolm Harrington was published in 2010.

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Entry Number#2137.01
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/2681
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLthe-diseases-of-occupations

Geographic Context

Publication place: London