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Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2017 Objective. Talc is widely used in industrial applications. Previous meta-analyses of carcinogenic effects associated with inhaled talc included publications before 2004, with a lack of data in China, the largest talc-producing country.
Che-Jui Chang +3 more
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The hospital ‘superbug’: social representations of MRSA [PDF]
, 2006 The so-called ‘hospital superbug’ methcillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) became a topic of media and political concern from the middle of the 1990’s.
Joffe, H., Washer, P.
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Mechanomorphosis: Science, Management, and “Human Machinery” in Industrial Canada, 1900–45 [PDF]
, 1998 By the early 20th century, the changes taking place in western industrial capitalist nations prompted an adaptive shift in the socioeconomic delineation of human bodies, and in scientific theories about how they worked and how they could be put to work ...
Comacchio, Cynthia
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The Meanings of ‘Life’:Biology and Biography in the Work of J.S. Haldane (1860-1936) [PDF]
, 2011 In the course of his somewhat unorthodox career in science, the physiologist John Scott Haldane occasionally turned to biography to portray the aims and values that he associated with such a career.
Sturdy, Steven
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The "Canone Inverso": when tobacco was not so bad. A Look Back at the Primordial Debate on the tobacco effects in the Occupational Medicine [PDF]
, 2018 AIM: The article provides an overview on the beginning and evolutions of medical observations on tobacco induced diseases between Eighteenth and Nineteenth century.
Gulino, Matteo +3 more
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Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé, 2001 In this edition, we offer you an interview with Jules Brodeur, physician and toxicologist, who has been a leader in the field of industrial toxicology both in Québec and elsewhere in the world. He began his career in pharmacology, in the late 1950s, as a
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BMC Medical Education, 2023 Objective One of the duties of the educational system is to provide situations in which students learn the tasks corresponding to their future careers in an interprofessional team.
Fatemeh Keshmiri +1 more
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Epidemiology of Congenital Anomalies in a Population-based Birth Registry in Taiwan, 2002
Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2009 Congenital anomalies are important medical and public health conditions. However, the occurrence rates of congenital anomalies and their risk factors are unknown in Taiwan. We used the medical-practitioner-reported birth registry in 2002 to determine the
Bing-Yu Chen +2 more
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Characterization of prosthetic knees through a low-dimensional description of gait kinematics
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2023 The characterization of both limbs’ behaviour in prosthetic gait is of key importance for improving the prosthetic components and increasing the biomechanical capability of trans-femoral amputees.
Simone Ranaldi +6 more
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Mortality among dentists in Taiwan, 1985–2009
Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2012 Controversy exists in the literature regarding whether dentists with multiple occupational exposures suffer from premature mortality. A cohort mortality study was conducted to evaluate the survival outcome and determine if potential exposure to harmful ...
Tung-Fu Shang +2 more
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