3rd Edition

Agricultural Medicine Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health for Agricultural and Rural Populations

Edited By Kelley J. Donham, Dennis J. Murphy Copyright 2026
632 Pages 156 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Often overlooked as a hazardous industry, agriculture is an essential industry that sustains human life and socioeconomic systems. This book offers an overview of the industry and workforce including agricultural production in a global economy, demographics of the workforce, regulations, statistics and organizations focusing on agricultural safety and health. It covers infectious diseases toxic... Read more

1.      History and Development of Agricultural Safety and Health

Dennis J. Murphy 

2.       Vulnerable Population in Agricultural Communities

Robin Tutor, S. Dee Jepsen 

3.      Occupational Injury, Illness, & Disease Statistics and Issues

Erika E. Scott 

4.      Theories and Principles for Agricultural Occupational Injury, Illness, and Disease

Dennis J. Murphy

5.      Acute Injuries in Production Agriculture

Aaron M. Yoder, Dennis J. Murphy, Kelley J. Donham,

 6.      Agricultural Respiratory Diseases

Kelley J. Donham

 7.      Agricultural Skin Diseases

Kirk Sidey, Christopher Arpey, John C. Selby, Rob Shaver, Kelley J. Donham

8.      Cancer in Agricultural Populations

Jonathan N. Hofmann, Vicky C. Chang, Kelley J. Donham 

9.      Health Effects of Agricultural Pesticides

Steve Kirkhorn, Beth Baker, Brian Goole 

10.    Musculoskeletal Disorders

Steven Kirkhorn, Kelley Donham

11.  Physical Factors: Noise, Vibration, Heat and Cold  

Kevin Moore, Jeffrey L. Levin, Anders Thelin, Kelley J. Donham

12.   General Environmental Hazards in Agricultural Communities

Kelley J. Donham

13.  Psychosocial Stressors and Mental Health Conditions in Agriculture 

Josie M. Rudolphi

14. Veterinary Pharmaceuticals: Potential Occupational Health Hazards

Heather Fowler, Locke Karriker, Kelley J. Donham

15.    Zoonotic Diseases: Occupational Hazards in Agriculture

Kelley J. Donham

16.  International Agricultural Safety and Health

Marcos Grigioni, Kelley J. Donham, Susan Brumby, Jessie Adams, Peter Lundqvist, Niels Koehncke, Supangat, Muhammad Rijal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Kelley J. Donham is Emeritus Professor, Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, having served as a professor on the faculty from 1973 until 2013. He was born and raised on a farm in Johnson County, Iowa, where he was actively involved in the family farm operation for many years and is still actively involved in agriculture as he owns and manages the 440-acre Pleasant Creek Farm with a colleague. Dr. Kelley obtained a B.S. in Premedical Sciences, and a M.S. in Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health from the University of Iowa, College of Medicine, USA, and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Iowa State University, USA. He practiced veterinary medicine for several years before returning to the University of Iowa as a faculty member in 1973. He achieved the rank of full Professor in 1984.

 

Dennis J. Murphy is Nationwide Insurance Professor Emiritus at Pennsylvania State University, USA, and founder of Murphy Agricultural Safety Consulting. He retired from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Penn State in 2017 and was a founder of the Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America (ASHCA) in 2007. He consults nationally and internationally and is a past President of the National Institute for Farm Safety.