Curriculum Vitae - Oscar Auerbach

Our plain-English summary of Curriculum Vitae - Oscar Auerbach, by O. Auerbach (1981).

The study

• Author: O. Auerbach
• Published: 1981
• Our copy: from Johns-Manville's own medical library. The article is still under copyright, so we describe it here rather than post it.

In plain English

This document is not a research article. It is a curriculum vitae of Oscar Auerbach, M.D., a pathologist, and it describes no study methods, data or results of its own. It lists the author's education, training, university teaching appointments, hospital and Veterans Administration posts, professional society memberships, honors and awards, and a numbered list of the author's publications. Most of the listed publication titles concern tuberculosis, lung cancer and cigarette smoking. Two listed titles concern asbestos. One is a 1977 paper in Environmental Research on asbestos bodies in lung tissue in relation to ingestion and inhalation of mineral fibers. The other is a 1980 paper in Chest titled "Presence of Asbestos Bodies in Organs Other than the Lung." The curriculum vitae gives only the titles and citations of these papers, not their methods, data or detailed results. Beyond what the 1980 title states, it does not say which organs were examined, whose tissue was studied, how many asbestos bodies were found, or what the authors concluded. Parts of the scanned text, especially the awards section, are garbled by OCR.

We wrote this plain-English summary from the full article with the help of AI, and a second AI model checked each sentence against the article. It is not the authors' wording; the abstract and the article are their own account.

What the study did and found

• Design: Not a study: a curriculum vitae with a list of publications
• Who was studied: No study population. The document describes the career and publications of Oscar Auerbach, M.D.
• Exposure: No exposure was studied in this document. It lists two asbestos-related paper titles. The first is on asbestos bodies in lung parenchyma in relation to ingestion and inhalation of mineral fibers (1977). The second is on the presence of asbestos bodies in organs other than the lung (1980). No methods, data or results from either paper are given.

Topics

Medical terms in this study, explained in our Lexicon: Lung Cancer, Asbestos Bodies, Mineral Fiber.

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