Silicosis : a world history / edited by Paul-André Rosental.
Contributor(s): Rosental, Paul-André [editor.].
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2017]Description: ix, 279 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781421421551.Subject(s): Silicosis -- History | Occupational diseases -- History | Public health -- International cooperation | Silicosis -- epidemiology | Anthracosis | Occupational Exposure -- history | Global Health | MYNGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index.
Introduction : why silicosis? / Paul-Andre Rosental -- Why is silicosis so important? / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner -- The genesis and development of the scientific concept of pulmonary silicosis during the nineteenth century / Alberto Baldasseroni and Francesco Carnevale -- Johannesburg and beyond : silicosis as a transnational and imperial disease (1900-1940) / Jock McCulloch and Paul-Andre Rosental, with Joe Melling -- The politics of recognition and its limitations : legislating on silicosis in the first half of the twentieth century-a national or transnational process? / Martin Lengwiler, Julia Moses, Bernard Thomann with Joseph Melling -- Silicosis and "silicosis" : minimizing compensation costs, or, Why do occupational diseases cost so little? / Paul-Andre Rosental and Bernard Thomann -- Silica or coal? design and implementation of dust prevention in the collieries in western economies (circa 1930-1980) / Eric Geerkens -- Conclusion : silica, silicosis and occupational health in the globalized world of the twenty-first century / Francesco Carnevale, Paul-Andre Rosental and Bernard Thomann.