A HISTORICAL-PERSPECTIVE OF SOME OCCUPATIONALLY RELATED DISEASES OF WOMEN

Authors
INFANTE PF PESAK J
Citation
Pf. Infante et J. Pesak, A HISTORICAL-PERSPECTIVE OF SOME OCCUPATIONALLY RELATED DISEASES OF WOMEN, Journal of occupational medicine, 36(8), 1994, pp. 826-831
Citations number
52
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Journal of occupational medicine
ISSN journal
00961736 → ACNP
Volume
36
Issue
8
Year of publication
1994
Pages
826 - 831
Database
ISI
SICI code
0096-1736(
Abstract
The study of occupational diseases among women has been minimal, and w hen observations of adverse health effects have been made, they often have been obscured, ignored, or mismanaged. Occupational exposures of women to beryllium, benzene, and vinyl chloride serve as past examples of indifference to the plight of women in the workplace. The lack of regulation for waste anesthetic gases and antineoplastic drugs to prot ect health care workers and veterinarians indicates that this indiffer ence continues today.