Occupation and Disease: How social factors affect the conception of work-related disorders

doi:10.1056/NEJM199610173351620

Volume 335:1245		October 17, 1996		Number 16

Occupation and Disease: How social factors affect the conception of work-related disorders

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By Allard E. Dembe. 344 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1996. $37.50. ISBN 0-300-06436-5.

Technological changes in societies give rise to changing patternsof illness in populations. Shifts from farming, hunting andgathering, and reliance on walking or use of animals for transportationto mechanized modes of industry, communications, and transportationhave been accompanied by a shift from the prominence of infectiousdiseases to the prominence of injuries and chronic illnesses.Innovation in medical technology has paralleled and often surpassedadvances in the methods of manufacturing and production of goodsin developed societies. Improvements in the way we diagnosediseases, identify their etiologic pathways, and develop methodsof prevention also have profound effects on . . . [Full Text of this Article]