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Black Lung : Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1998Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801471551
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black LungDDC classification:
  • 616.2/44
LOC classification:
  • RC733.D44 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
BLACK LUNG -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. They Spit a Black Substance -- 2. Twice a Boy -- 3. The Atmosphere of the Mine Is Now Vindicated -- 4. Sheep-like Acceptance of Half-Baked Statements -- 5. To Bits -- 6. Frightening Figures -- 7. Extreme Solidarity -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades, the combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of black lung disease--and even to acknowledge its existence--resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.
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BLACK LUNG -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. They Spit a Black Substance -- 2. Twice a Boy -- 3. The Atmosphere of the Mine Is Now Vindicated -- 4. Sheep-like Acceptance of Half-Baked Statements -- 5. To Bits -- 6. Frightening Figures -- 7. Extreme Solidarity -- Notes -- Index.

In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades, the combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of black lung disease--and even to acknowledge its existence--resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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