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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Hadeel Maksoud M.D.[2]

Overview

Historical Perspective

  • Occupational lung diseases have been described since the time of Egyptian, Grecian and Roman empires, where extensive land mining and building took place.[1][2][3]
  • Furthermore, in the 16th and 17th century an awareness for occupational health hazards became apparent with exposure to arsenic, lead and carbon monoxide.
  • In the 18th century, Dr. Bernardino Ramazzini, described as "the father of occupational medicine" described the "disease of workers" in the 1700s.
  • In the late 18th century, Hale introduced the importance of ventilation and Von Humboldt invented gas masks for coal workers.
  • The advent of the industrial revolution beginning with cotton picking in India in the 10th century, and leading up to mechanization in Europe later in the 18th century greatly contributed to the prevalence of occupational lung disease.
  • In the 19th century, workers that suffered from occupational disease initiated the legislation, trade union and insurance movements.
  • In the 20th century, Dr. Alice Hamilton established the study on occupational disease, whilst Dr. Hariett Hardy and Dr. Irving Selikoff described berylliosis and abestosis respectively.

Outbreaks

  • There has been a recent cluster discovery in February 2018 of coal worker's pneumoconiosis amongst coal miner's in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia.
  • Coal worker's pneumoconiosis complicated by progressive massive fibrosis in these regions was previously seen 5 - 7 times per year.
  • As of February 2018, 154 new cases were diagnosed within one year.

Impact on Cultural History

  • The slave trade and industrial revolution are crucial events in history that established many occupational hazards.


References

  1. Kreiss K, Gomaa A, Kullman G, Fedan K, Simoes EJ, Enright PL (2002). "Clinical bronchiolitis obliterans in workers at a microwave-popcorn plant". N. Engl. J. Med. 347 (5): 330–8. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa020300. PMID 12151470.
  2. Crosland M (2009). "The French Academy of Sciences as a patron of the medical sciences in the early nineteenth century". Ann Sci. 66 (2): 247–65. doi:10.1080/00033790802292638. PMID 19831262.
  3. Sigerist HE (1936). "The Wesley M. Carpenter Lecture: "Historical Background of Industrial and Occupational Diseases"". Bull N Y Acad Med. 12 (11): 597–609. PMC 1965828. PMID 19312003.