Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects provides a comprehensive picture of the development of knowledge on asbestos disease and worker health. Barry Castleman's research makes this book essential reading for anyone involved in litigation over the compensation of asbestos disease victims and environmental health.Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects draws upon published literature of all kinds to chronicle the origin and development of today's asbestos problem.To attorneys in asbestos litigation, this book offers a complete documentation on the development of knowledge about asbestos hazards. There is an abundance of valuable material for the attorney preparing his case.Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects is a major contribution to the public debate and litigation over the compensation of asbestos victims. It also is an invaluable tool for formulators of public health policy and legislation.

Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects

Castleman, Barry I.

Medical Books

Aspen Law & Business

Asbestos: Medical and legal aspects

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

Law & Business

This comprehensive reference for attorneys involved in asbestos litigation includes a complete historical perspective of prior-and ongoing-litigation and covers the evolving knowledge of asbestos hazards, both in open literature and with particular attention to the main defendants in these cases. The new fourth edition of Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects equips the attorney preparing a case with crucial information, materials, and resources, including evaluations of the main defense arguments and analyses of unpublished records. The book covers in detail: * Asbestosis and cancer * Compensability of asbestosis and cancer as occupational diseases * Thresholds and standards used to determine safe or acceptable levels of asbestos exposure in the workplace * Company knowledge of asbestos hazards, gleaned from countless depositions, company records, industry consultants, and trade associations.

Law & Business, inc

Written by one of the leading asbestos experts for both plaintiff and defense attorneys, occupational and environmental health professionals, as well as others in the field of toxic substances control, Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects has become the definitive resource on the medical and legal aspects of asbestos. 
Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects provides a comprehensive examination of the public health history of asbestos, from the origins of industrial use to the present. It includes in-depth coverage of prior and ongoing litigation; extensive evaluation of the legal arguments put forth by plaintiff and defense counsel; and provides crucial information, materials and resources on the evolving corporate knowledge of asbestos hazards. The book covers in detail: asbestosis and cancer; compensability of asbestosis and cancer as occupational diseases; thresholds and standards used to determine safe or acceptable levels of asbestos exposure in the workplace; and company knowledge of asbestos hazards, gleaned from countless depositions, company records, industry consultants and trade associations. 
Some items new to the Fifth Edition include: 
<li>extensive discussion of corporate knowledge and responsibility for asbestos hazards </li>
<li>extensive examination of the international struggle over asbestos, whereby some countries have banned asbestos while others have continued to expand their usage of asbestos in building materials </li>
<li>detailed discussion of alternatives to asbestos.</li>

Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects, Fifth Edition

Self-Help

Aspen Publishers

Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects provides a comprehensive picture of the development of knowledge on asbestos disease and worker health. Barry Castleman's research makes this book essential reading for anyone involved in litigation over the compensation of asbestos disease victims and environmental health. Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects draws upon published literature of all kinds to chronicle the origin and development of today's asbestos problem. To attorneys in asbestos litigation, this book offers a complete documentation on the development of knowledge about asbestos hazards. There is an abundance of valuable material for the attorney preparing his case. Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects is a major contribution to the public debate and litigation over the compensation of asbestos victims. It also is an invaluable tool for formulators of public health policy and legislation.

Berger, Stephen L.

Medicine

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Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects

Asbestos: Medical and legal aspects

Asbestos: Medical and legal aspects

Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects, Fifth Edition

Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects