Author: American Conference of Governmental Industrial HygienistsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Transactions of the Annual Meeting
Author: American Conference of Governmental Industrial HygienistsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Black Lung
Author: Alan DericksonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801471559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades after methods of prevention were known, hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of this disease—and even to acknowledge its existence—resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt. The book begins in the late nineteenth century, when the disorders brought on by exposure to coal mine dust were first identified as components of a debilitating and distinctive illness. For several decades thereafter, coal miners' dust disease was accepted, in both lay and professional circles, as a major industrial disease. Derickson describes how after the turn of the century medical professionals and industry representatives worked to discredit and supplant knowledge about black lung, with such success that this disease ceased to be recognized. Many authorities maintained that breathing coal mine dust was actually beneficial to health. Derickson shows that activists ultimately forced society to overcome its complacency about this deadly and preventable disease. He chronicles the growth of an unprecedented movement—from the turn-of-the-century miners' union, to the social medicine activists in the mid-twentieth century, and the black lung insurgents of the late sixties—which eventually won landmark protections and compensation with the enactment of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act in 1969. An extraordinary work of scholarship, Black Lung exposes the enormous human cost of producing the energy source responsible for making the United States the world's preeminent industrial nation.
Transactions
Author: American Conference of Governmental Industrial HygienistsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occupational diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Industrial Chemicals
Author: Vera Fiserova-BergerovaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biological monitoring
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Asbestos
Author: Ronald F. DodsonPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1040062423
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The first edition of Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects received critical acclaim due to the interdisciplinary nature of its content. Editors Ronald Dodson and Samuel Hammar have carefully kept this popular focus while updating and expanding the topics covered in the first edition with the help of internationally known expe
Occupational Exposure to Ethylene Dichloride (1,2-dichloroethane).
Author: National Institute for Occupational Safety and HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethanes
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Federal Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 2264
Book Description
Public Health Reports
Author: Asbestos
Author: Barry I. CastlemanPublisher: Wolters Kluwer
ISBN: 0735552606
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Written by one of the leading asbestos experts for attorneys, occupational and environmental health professionals, and others in the field of toxic substances control, this updated resource provides a comprehensive examination of the public health history of asbestos. Includes extensive discussion of corporate knowledge and responsibility for asbestos hazards and detailed discussion of alternatives to asbestos.
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