De Morbis Artificum Diatriba

The <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5325108025&view=1up&seq=1">De Morbis Artificum Diatriba</a> (Dissertation on Workers' Diseases) is the first book exploring working environments with the aim to identify the hazards that could harm health and cause specific disorders in individuals and in groups of workers who carried out the same activity (<a href="/facts/Occupational_illness/Wh5yeEAA">occupational diseases</a>)(Di Pietro P 1999, Carnevale F et al. 2009). It was written in <a href="/facts/Latin/pM3Kge85">Latin</a> by <a href="/facts/Bernardino_Ramazzini/ljTbvPQI">Bernardino Ramazzini</a> and published in <a href="/facts/Modena/UAHSfJXy">Modena</a> in 1700. In 1713 the second edition was printed in <a href="/facts/Padua/7yw19UVp">Padua</a>. For this work Ramazzini is the acknowledged father of occupational medicine (Pagel JL 1891; Garrison FH 1934) and the Diatriba has been cited by <a href="/facts/Adam_Smith/sj2Tt18r">Adam Smith</a>, <a href="/facts/Karl_Marx/CXYTK95X">Karl Marx</a>, and <a href="/facts/Cotton_Mather/xVoCq8eS">Cotton Mather</a>.

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De Morbis Artificum Diatriba