Fitness to work with skin disease and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
The Americans with Disabilities Act seeks to prevent applicants from being denied work of which they are capable. This chapter discusses the act and its advantages for persons with disabilities. The author also describes skin diseases that constitute a basis for excluding a prospective employee and skin diseases that can become aggravated in the workplace.
Nethercott
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Department of Dermatology, University of Maryland, Baltimore 21201.
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