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Charles Turner Thackrah, 1795-1833, 'The Father of Occupational Medicine'.

Charles Turner Thackrah, 1795-1833, 'The Father of Occupational Medicine'.

Collegium Ramazzini: Comments on the 2014 Helsinki consensus report on asbestos.

Collegium Ramazzini: Comments on the 2014 Helsinki consensus report on asbestos.

The global health dimensions of asbestos and asbestos-related diseases.

The Collegium Ramazzini is an international scientific society that examines critical issues in occupational and environmental medicine with a view towards action to prevent disease and promote health. The Collegium derives its name from Bernardino Ramazzini, the father of occupational medicine, a professor of medicine of the Universities of Modena and Padua in the late 1600s and the early 1700s. The Collegium is comprised of 180 physicians and scientists from 35 countries, each of whom is elected to membership. The Collegium is independent of commercial interests.

The global health dimensions of asbestos and asbestos-related diseases.

The Collegium Ramazzini is an international scientific society that examines critical issues in occupational and environmental medicine with a view towards action to prevent disease and promote health. The Collegium derives its name from Bernardino Ramazzini, the father of occupational medicine, a professor of medicine of the Universities of Modena and Padua in the late 1600s and the early 1700s. The Collegium is comprised of 180 physicians and scientists from 35 countries, each of whom is elected to membership. The Collegium is independent of commercial interests.

Comments on the causation of malignant mesothelioma: rebutting the false concept that recent exposures to asbestos do not contribute to causation of mesothelioma.

The Collegium Ramazzini is an international scientific society that examines critical issues in occupational and environmental medicine with a view towards action to prevent disease and promote health. The Collegium derives its name from Bernardino Ramazzini, the father of occupational medicine, a professor of medicine of the Universities of Modena and Padua in the late 1600s and the early 1700s. The Collegium is comprised of 180 physicians and scientists from 35 countries, each of whom is elected to membership. The Collegium is independent of commercial interests.

Comments on the 2014 Helsinki consensus report on asbestos.

The Collegium Ramazzini is an international scientific society that examines critical issues in occupational and environmental medicine with a view towards action to prevent disease and promote health. The Collegium derives its name from Bernardino Ramazzini, the father of occupational medicine, a professor of medicine of the Universities of Modena and Padua in the late 1600s and the early 1700s. The Collegium is comprised of 180 physicians and scientists from 35 countries, each of whom is elected to membership. The Collegium is independent of commercial interests.

<b>Health and well-being through the eyes of Bernardino Ramazzini, the </b><b>father of occupational medicine </b>

<b>Health and well-being through the eyes of Bernardino Ramazzini, the </b><b>father of occupational medicine </b>

A pioneer of public health, Bernardino Ramazzini.

2014 marks the tercentenary of the death of Bernardino Ramazzini, an academic who lived in the Duchy of Modena in the second half of the seventeenth century. This event represents an occasion to remember his thinking, which is remarkably anticipatory of some concepts and trends of modern public health. Although the main merit of Bernardino Ramazzini lies in his contribution to the knowledge of occupational diseases, which granted him the title of father of Occupational Medicine, his work deserves a more detailed and complete consideration. In fact, the systematic approach to the clinical presentation of diseases and their relationship to work, gathered in the famed treatise De Morbis Artificum Diatriba, resulted in little attention being paid to the preventive aspects of his thinking. The free spirit, the tension for searching, the love for the discussion characterize his scientific attitude, which spans from the anticipation of an epidemiologic approach to studies on the impact of air and climate, from workplace surveillance to suggestions for the protection of health, from proposals of primary prevention tools to recommendations of lifestyle behaviour, from educational issues to health promotion. His scientific, cultural and humanitarian stature is evidenced by his overall scientific works revealing the modernity of his thinking in the light of the present trend of public health focusing on the needs of people and promoting occupational health as an integral component of the health concept.

The health of a leader through the eyes of Bernardino Ramazzini, the father of occupational medicine

The health of a leader through the eyes of Bernardino Ramazzini, the father of occupational medicine

Work-associated Arthritis Productivity Loss: Where Do We Stand in Its Measurement?

Bernardino Ramazzini, the father of occupational medicine, recognized the association of the health of workers and their on-the-job productivity in his book Diseases of Workers, published in 17131. Productivity loss associated with workers is related to time off work, termed absenteeism, and decrements in on-the-job productivity, termed presenteeism2. The measurement of absenteeism, whether from a portion of a workday or a full workday, is conceptually understandable and potentially objective to measure3. There are a wide variety of reasons for absences from work related to medical conditions, ranging from incidental or scattered absences to extended disability leave. Although there is general agreement that medical conditions such as arthritis can affect on-the-job productivity, there is no general agreement on its measurement, translation, or monetization. Publications on the association of medical conditions with objectively measured on-the-job productivity have been relatively few and limited to such studies as anemia in factory workers4, nutritional status in tea pickers5, nutritional status in road construction workers6, and medical conditions and health risk factors in telephone call center workers7 … Address correspondence to Dr. Burton. E-mail: wayneburtonmd{at}comcast.net

1131 CELLO SCROTUM, 1974-2009

You have accessJournal of UrologyHistory of Urology1 Apr 20101131 CELLO SCROTUM, 1974-2009 Lawrence Wyner Lawrence WynerLawrence Wyner More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2010.02.2328AboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES In his seminal 1713 treatise, De Morbis Artificum Diatriba (Diseases of Tradesmen), Bernardino Ramazzini (1633-1714), the father of occupational medicine, included musicians as one of 52 occupations he described with various medical ailments peculiar to their work. Likewise, in 1887, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) became the first scientific periodical to publish an analysis of a musician's malady, “pianist's breakdown,” a study by G.V. Poore of muscle cramps caused by playing the piano. These endeavors spawned the field of performance medicine, which has grown to encompass multiple textbooks and journals dedicated to this topic, as well as a plethora of purported physical ailments ascribed to the challenges of playing various musical instruments. These conditions range from the serious (e.g. fiddler's neck, clarinetist's cheilitis) to the fanciful (e.g. Satchmo's Syndrome, guitar nipple). Perhaps the most bizarre of these was cello scrotum, first described by chemist John Murphy in a letter to the editor of the BMJ in 1974. Murphy and his wife, psychiatrist Elaine Murphy, had read a letter to the editor in a previous BMJ issue identifying guitar nipple, a condition supposedly consisting of areolar irritation in adolescent girls learning to play classical guitar. The Murphys, convinced that guitar nipple was bogus, wrote their own letter to the BMJ as a follow-up, claiming to have seen a cellist patient with scrotal dermatitis caused by long hours of scrotal contact with the vibrating body of his instrument. To their surprise, the letter was published in the BMJ, and began to be reported across the globe. Musicians unions in both the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union lobbied to have the condition listed as an industrial disease. Cello scrotum was referenced a dozen times in the peer-reviewed medical literature over the next 35 years, although skeptics questioned how the body of the cello could contact the scrotum if the instrument were properly played, and one wag commented that the affected cellists might be supplementing their meager incomes by sweeping chimneys! In any case, by Christmas 2008, the Murphys decided it was time to “come clean,” and sent the BMJ a letter of retraction which was published in January 2009, admitting that cello scrotum was indeed a high-brow hoax. The BMJ took the matter in stride, commenting that no one was harmed by the light-hearted deception, especially the Murphys (she sits on the board overseeing the British National Health Service and is a member of the House of Lords, and he is chairman of a brewery), and that the BMJ will continue its pioneering efforts on behalf of musicians' health. METHODS N/A RESULTS N/A CONCLUSIONS N/A Huntington, WV© 2010 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 183Issue 4SApril 2010Page: e437-e438 Advertisement Copyright & Permissions© 2010 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.MetricsAuthor Information Lawrence Wyner More articles by this author Expand All Advertisement Advertisement PDF downloadLoading ...

DOUBLE PROTECTION: Reaching Accord on the Ethical Conduct of Child Observational Research

From Bernardino Ramazzini’s visits to seventeenth-century craftsmen’s worksites—where he made observations that earned him the title of “father of occupational medicine”—to modern-day research leading to bans on public smoking, observational studies have improved and enhanced environmental health. Such studies involve observing people’s everyday lives, defining the characteristics of their environments, and determining whether any risks arise from activities within the context of those environments. Modern environmental observational studies, including the recently launched National Children’s Study, also measure environmental compounds and their metabolites in people’s bodies while assessing sources and routes of exposure so that the appropriate agencies can initiate reduction strategies if high exposures are seen. Generally, an observational study is conducted without the observer intervening with research subjects to avoid undermining research goals. However, strict adherence to this practice could create significant ethical concerns, particularly when a vulnerable subject such as a child is at risk for harm. Misunderstandings and disagreements about how those concerns should be addressed in children’s observational exposure studies have forced researchers and policy makers to more precisely—and now possibly successfully—define what constitutes a scientifically rigorous and ethical study.

Bernardino Ramazzini: The Father of Occupational Medicine.

Bernardino Ramazzini was born in Carpi, Italy, in 1633. While he was still a medical student at Parma University, his attention was drawn to diseases suffered by workers. In 1682, when he was appointed chair of theory of medicine at the University of Modena, Ramazzini focused on workers' health problems in a systematic and scholarly way.1 He visited workplaces, observed workers' activities, and discussed their illnesses with them. The medicine courses he taught were dedicated to the diseases of workers.2 Ramazzini systematized the existing knowledge and made a large personal contribution to the field by collecting his observations in De Morbis Artificum Diatriba [Diseases of Workers]; the first edition was printed in Modena in 1700 and the second in Padua in 1713. Primarily on the basis of this work, Ramazzini is called “the father of occupational medicine.”3,4 Each chapter of the De Morbis Artificum Diatriba contains a description of the disease associated with a particular work activity followed by a literature analysis, workplace description, questions for workers, disease description, remedies, and advice. The clinical picture was directly observed by Ramazzini, who questioned workers about their complaints. He regularly asked his patients about the kind of work they did and suggested that all physicians do the same.4 Ramazzini realized that not all workers' diseases were attributable to the working environment (chemical or physical agents). He observed that a variety of common workers' diseases appeared to be caused by prolonged, violent, and irregular motions and prolonged postures. Such cumulative trauma and repetitivemotion injuries have recently been called the occupational epidemic of the 1990s.5 Ramazzini studied the relationship between certain disorders and postural attitudes, repetition of movements, and weight lifting and anticipated some preventive measures.