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Asbestos in Australia : from boom to dust /
Asbestos in Australia presents for the first time a multi-dimensional view of Australia's asbestos story featuring contributions from experts in the disciplines of history, journalism, medicine, law and public health. It also includes first-hand accounts of those whose lives have been touched b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clayton, Victoria, Australia :
Monash University Publishing,
[2019]
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| Edición: | [World version]. |
| Colección: | Australian history (Monash University Publishing)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover
- Title Page
- About this Book
- Copyright and Imprint Information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Witness Seminar panel
- Figure 1.1: Total asbestos fibre imports to Australia [in short tons].
- Figure 1.2: Comparison of asbestos fibre prices, Australia 1950-1966
- Figure 2.1: A popular attraction at Sydney Royal Easter Show 1949
- Figure 2.2: "Shangri-la" built of fibro, western Sydney, 1949
- Figure 2.3: A fibro streetscape, western Sydney, 1946
- Figure 2.4: Numbers of fibro houses 1921-1971 and as percentage of all occupied private houses
- Figure 2.5: Distribution of fibro houses, Sydney 1971
- Figure 2.6: Asbestos insulation blanket on turbine at East Perth Power Station
- Figure 6.1: Wittenoom workers (men)
- Figure 6.2: Australian workers (men)
- Figure 8.1: A miner drills in the narrow stope of the Australian Blue Asbestos mine, Wittenoom
- Figure 9.1: Workers bag asbestos fibre at Baryulgil mill
- Figure 11.1: Asbestos Awareness Healthy House Checklist
- Figure 11.2: Airborne asbestos fibre concentrations (fibres/mL) measured during selected renovation activities
- Figure 13.1: Testing dust levels at Wittenoom's mine and mill, 1966
- Figure 14.1: Robert and Rose Marie Vojakovic standing outside Parliament House, Perth with some of the widows of Wittenoom
- Figure 14.2: Remembering the dead
- Figure 15.1: Dr Greg Deleuil
- Figure 15.2: Alice Deleuil, in the family home in Darwin surrounded by asbestos louvres
- Acknowledgements
- About the Contributors
- Introduction
- Lenore Layman & Gail Phillips
- Part 1. The Rise and Fall of the Asbestos Industry
- Chapter 1. The Asbestos Industry in Australia
- Lenore Layman
- Chapter 2. Asbestos in the Built Environment
- Lenore Layman
- Chapter 3. Tackling the Dust Hazard: The Response of Public Health
- Lenore Layman
- Chapter 4. Uncovering the Story: Asbestos in the Media
- Chris Smyth
- Part 2. Asbestos Related Disease: The Medical Journey
- Chapter 5. Milestones in the Knowledge and Treatment of Asbestos Related Diseases
- A W (Bill) Musk
- Chapter 6. Asbestos and Mesothelioma-Fifty Years On
- Geoffrey Berry
- Chapter 7. Health Outcomes of the Women and Children Who Lived at Wittenoom
- Alison Reid
- Part 3. Damaged Communities
- Chapter 8. Memories of Wittenoom
- Chapter 9 .Working and Living in Baryulgil
- Part 4. Asbestos in the Courts: The Battles for Compensation
- Chapter 10. The History of Asbestos Litigation
- John Gordon
- Part 5. Asbestos Today: The Lingering Legacy
- Chapter 11. The Ongoing Problem of Asbestos In Situ
- Peter Franklin & Alison Reid
- Part 6. In Their Own Words: The Witness Stories
- Chapter 12. Wittenoom's Flying Doctor
- Dr Eric Saint
- Chapter 13. A Public Health Campaigner's Story
- Dr Jim McNulty, Occupational Health Physician