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Deadly dust : silicosis and the on-going struggle to protect workers' health
- Title
- Deadly dust : silicosis and the on-going struggle to protect workers' health / David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz.
- Author
- Rosner, David, 1947-
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2006.
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- Additional Authors
- Markowitz, Gerald E.
- Description
- xix, 258 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "During the Depression, silicosis, an industrial lung disease, emerged as a national social crisis. Experts estimated that hundreds of thousands of workers were at risk of disease, disability, and death by inhaling silica in mines, foundries, and quarries."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Conversations in medicine and society
- Uniform Title
- Conversations in medicine and society.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- I. The "cabinet of curiosities" : silicosis and the recognition of industrial disease -- II. Foundries and the silicosis problem -- III. "This king of occupational diseases - silicosis" -- IV. "Those that are competent to speak" -- V. "Street of walking death" : silicosis in the tri-state -- VI. Last gasps : the death of the silicosis issue -- VII. Silicosis reborn : 1970-2000 -- VIII. Conclusion -- App. The "science" of thresholds.
- ISBN
- 0472031104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005056898
- 9780472031108
- OCLC
- ocm62282686
- SCSB-8878129
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries