Health Hazards of Asbestos Exposure 1979 -Title and Cover Page Only

Our plain-English summary of Health Hazards of Asbestos Exposure 1979 -Title and Cover Page Only, by I.J. Selikoff, E.C. Hammond (1979).

The study

• Authors: I.J. Selikoff, E.C. Hammond
• Published: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 330. (1979)
• Type of article: Book excerpt
• 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 study. It contains only the front matter of Volume 330 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, titled Health Hazards of Asbestos Exposure, edited by Irving J. Selikoff and E. Cuyler Hammond and dated December 14, 1979. The pages include title pages, a list of the Academy's officers, the table of contents, a list of financial supporters, and the editors' foreword. The volume came from an international conference and related workshops that the Academy held on 24-27 June, 1978, as part of its Science Week. The contents list papers grouped under asbestos disease in employed groups, the shipyard problem, and environmental asbestos disease, along with panels and workshops. None of those papers' methods or data appear in this text, so no findings can be reported. In the foreword, the editors described the meeting as a continuation of the Academy's 1964 meeting. They wrote that it extended that meeting by examining scientific information for how it might provide guidance for public health control of asbestos hazards.

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: Front matter of a conference proceedings volume (title pages, table of contents, list of funders, editors' foreword); not a research study
• Who was studied: No study population. The volume records an international conference and workshops held 24-27 June, 1978 by the New York Academy of Sciences as part of its Science Week
• The authors' conclusion: In the foreword, the editors wrote that the 1978 meeting continued the Academy's 1964 meeting. They said it extended that meeting by examining scientific information from the perspective of how it might provide guidance for public health control of asbestos hazards.

Topics

Medical terms in this study, explained in our Lexicon: Asbestos Exposure.

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