Fitness For Work The medical aspects

The fourth edition of this established book provides comprehensive information and practical guidance on the effects of medical conditions on employment and working capability. Every significant medical problem is covered, including the employment potential and assessment of anyone with a disability. Legal and ethical aspects are also addressed.

1: Keith Palmer & Robin Cox: A General Framework for Assessing Fitness for Work; 2: Gillian S Howard: Legal Aspects of Fitness for Work; 3: Gillian S Howard & Robin Cox: The Disability Discrimination Act 1995; 4: Mansel Aylward & P Sawney: Support and Rehabilitation - Restoring Fitness for Work; 5: Kit Harling: Ethics for Occupational Physicians; 6: Richard Hardie & Robert Willcox: Neurological Disorders; 7: Martin Deahl & Eric Teasdale: Mental Health and Psychiatric Disorders; 8: Ian Brown & Martin Prevett: Epilepsy; 9: Ray Johnston & John Pitts: Vision and Eye Disorders; 10: Brian Ludlow & K B Hughes: Hearing and Vestibular Disorders; 11: Keith Palmer & Charles Greenough: Spinal Disorders; 12: Robin Cox & Ian Nugent: Orthopaedics and Trauma of the Limbs; 13: Howard Bird & Steve Ryder: Rheumatological Disorders; 14: Carole Astbury & Jo Southgate: Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorders; 15: Eugene Waclawski & Geoffrey Gill: Diabetes Mellitus and Other Endocrine Disorders; 16: Julia Smedley & Richard Kaczmarski: Haematological Disorders; 17: Anne E Price & Mike C Petch: Cardiovascular Disorders; 18: Keith Palmer & Stanley Pearson: Respiratory Disorders; 19: Edwina Brown & John Hobson: Renal and Urological Disease; 20: Sally Coomber & Peter Harris: Women at Work; 21: Maggie Samuel & James Wellwood: Fitness for Work Following Surgery; 22: Ursula Ferriday & Iain Foulds: Dermatological Disorders; 23: Sian Williams & Brian Gazzard: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV); 24: Olivia Carlton & CCH Cook: Alcohol & Drugs Misuse; 25: Iain Rennie & G T McInnes: Medication; 26: Henry Goodall & John Grimley Evans: Work and The Older Employee; 27: C John M Poole & Dr Paul Litchfield: Ill Health Retirement; 28: Tim Carter, Heather Major, Tony Erlam & Simon Janvrin: Fitness to Drive; 29: T-C Aw & David Koh: Health Screening; Raymond Johnston: Appendix 1 - Civil Aviation; Tim Carter: Appendix 2 -Seafarer Fitness; Mike Doig: Appendix 3 - Offshore Workers; Nick McIver & David Bracher: Appendix 4 - The Medical Assessment of Working Divers; Robin Cox: Appendix 5 - General Aspects of Fitness for Work Overseas; Keith Palmer: Appendix 6 - Workers exposed to hand-transmitted vibration: Health surveillance and fitness for work; Mark Dixon & Emma Ziegler: Appendix 7 - Returning to work after intensive care treatment; Appendix 8 - Useful addresses and contact details