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Black lung : anatomy of a public health disaster
- Title
- Black lung : anatomy of a public health disaster / Alan Derickson.
- Author
- Derickson, Alan
- Publication
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1998.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 237 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Black Lung exposes the enormous human cost of producing the energy source responsible for making the United States the world's preeminent industrial nation. The book also provides a stark warning about the risks of ignoring or denying the existence of an occupational disease. Americans today are paying dearly for the decades when black lung was not recognized: compensation to disabled miners and their families has cost more than thirty billion dollars thus far.
- More important, society's denial of the dangers of coal mine dust shortened and impoverished the lives of miners, who today are too often breathless and displaced, destroyed by their work.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 0801431867 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801482860 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98013612
- OCLC
- 38550965
- ocm38550965
- SCSB-4785937
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries