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"Given the growing concern with breast cancer as a largely unexplained and common illness of our time, we would expect considerable print media coverage. An accurate portrayal of breast cancer would also include a good amount of attention to the potential environmental factors since many women with breast cancer and activists are pointing to such potential causes. Our examination of daily newspapers, newsweeklies, science periodicals, and women's magazines showed that there was little coverage of possible environmental causation. There was also scant attention paid to corporate and governmental responsibility. Articles often focused on individual responsibility for diet, age at birth of first child, and other personal behaviours. Articles also emphasised genetic causation, even though this explained only a small fraction of breast cancer incidence. These factors combine to place personal responsibility on women for preventing the disease. Despite gains in understanding possible environmental causation and much scientific dialogue about it, especially in light of the endocrine disrupter hypothesis, and despite growing social activism, the print media have not paid much attention to environmental causation of breast cancer. Because the media have significant influence over public understanding and social action, this lack of attention may hold back scientific and activist pursuit of environmental causes of breast cancer"

"The objective was to determine the aetiology of forearm pain. In particular to determine the relative contribution of (a) psychological factors, features of somatisation, and health anxiety and behaviour, (b) work related mechanical factors, and (c) work related psychosocial factors in the onset of forearm pain. The authors conclude that psychological distress, aspects of illness behaviour, and other somatic symptoms are important predictors of onset of forearm pain in addition to work related psychosocial and mechanical factors. Misleading terms such as "cumulative trauma disorder" or "repetitive strain injury," implying a single uniform aetiology, should be avoided."

"Die Broschüre wendet sich an Betroffene, Beschäftigte und die betriebliche Interessenvertretung und geht darauf ein, wie sie sich verhalten und ihre Interessen durchsetzen können, damit Betroffene und ihre Familien nicht wg. Erwerbs- und/oder Arbeitsunfähigkeit eines Partners/einer Partnerin noch zusätzlich zu den starken Belastungen ihrer Erkrankung "verarmen" und sozial ausgegrenzt werden? Was lässt sich zum Anerkennungsverfahren bei den Berufsgenossenschaften sagen? Zur Veranschaulichung der Darstellung werden 16 Fälle exemplarisch beschrieben ..."