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Deadly dust : silicosis and the politics of occupational disease in twentieth-century America /

History of medicine

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosner, David, 1947-
Other Authors: Markowitz, Gerald E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1991]
Subjects:
History, 20th Century.
Occupational Diseases > history.
Politics.
Silicosis > history.
Social Environment.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • "Cabinet of curiosities": silicosis and the recognition of industrial disease
  • Foundries and the silicosis problem
  • "This king of occupational diseases-silicosis"
  • "Those that are competent to speak"
  • "Street of walking death": silicosis in the tri-state
  • Last gasps: the death of the silicosis issue.