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Hunter's Diseases of Occupations.
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    Hunter's Diseases of Occupations. PJ Baxter, PH Adams, T-C Aw, A Cockcroft, JM Harrington, Editors. (Pp 1001, hardback; £155.00). UK: Arnold, 2000. ISBN 0 340 67750 3

    In 1955 the first edition of Donald Hunter's bookDiseases of Occupations was published. He said that he wanted to emphasise the clinical aspects of occupational disease and this remains true in the ninth edition of “Hunter's”. The five main editors of this edition and the majority of contributors are UK based. However, given that its primary focus is clinical information, its contents ought to be valid worldwide. Clearly, for issues relating to country-specific health legislation, you may need to look elsewhere (although UK readers are catered for reasonably well).

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