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Occupational Medicine 1970;20:113-118
© 1970 Society of Occupational Medicine

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Changes in Occupation and in Health

Joseph L. Kearns

Medical Adviser, J. Lyons Group of Companies

"Change in industry" is a loose term. The frequency of its use, and the magnitude implied, obscure the significance of developments in society. The new industries, such as transport, communication, and computers are derived from the demands of the increasingly complex structure of the work force. Man is paradoxically the basic and most complex organism/machine. The hierarchy of his needs legitimately directs medical attention to mere survival in the less developed countries, where the major killing diseases are still those which afflicted late medieval Europe. Today there is little opportunity for participation by the individual in our complex society, which has educated him/her to demand a higher level of satisfaction. Disciplines hitherto dismissed as "quacks", and business men hitherto considered to be inferior to "professional men", have studied the health of the individual and the organisation, while we doctors have been obsessed with disease. Observation and experience of their work affords this tiny minority of our profession an opportunity to contribute to the development of medicine appropriate to the changes in occupation and health in the community of which we are but a part.


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