McIntyre-Saranac Conference on Occupational Chest Disease Schedule and Contents Page

Our plain-English summary of McIntyre-Saranac Conference on Occupational Chest Disease Schedule and Contents Page, by A.J. Lanza, D.A. Irwin, J.W.G. Hannon, et al (1955).

The study

• Authors: A.J. Lanza, D.A. Irwin, J.W.G. Hannon, G.M. Meade, G.W.H. Schepers
• Published: McIntyre-Saranac Conference, February 7-9, 1955
• Type of article: Conference paper
• 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 is the printed program and table of contents for the McIntyre-Saranac Conference on Occupational Chest Disease, held February 7, 8 and 9, 1955, at the Town Hall in Saranac Lake, New York. It lists the program committee, chaired by A. J. Lanza, and the session times, speakers and talk titles. Several talks dealt with silicosis and its control, including a session on aluminum in the control of silicosis. Other topics included talc, beryllium, coal mining, radon and rare metals. Two items concern asbestos. On February 9, a session on medico-legal and clinical aspects of pulmonary disability was moderated by a person listed as counsel to the Quebec Asbestos Producers Association. That session included a talk on the pulmonary disability attendant on asbestosis by the medical director of the Johns-Manville Corp. The contents page also lists a paper titled "Pulmonary Disability in Asbestos Workers", with no author legible in the scan. The document reports no data, findings or conclusions about asbestos or any other exposure.

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: Conference program and table of contents (not a study; no data or findings)
• Who was studied: No study population. The program covers a three-day conference on occupational chest disease held at the Town Hall, Saranac Lake, New York, in February 1955.
• Exposure: No exposure was studied. Two asbestos-related items appear: a February 9 talk on the pulmonary disability attendant on asbestosis by the medical director of Johns-Manville Corp., and a contents entry titled "Pulmonary Disability in Asbestos Workers". The session that included the talk was moderated by counsel to the Quebec Asbestos Producers Association.

Topics

Medical terms in this study, explained in our Lexicon: Silicosis, Talc, Johns-Manville.

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