Black Lung : Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster /

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"Black Lung exposes the enormous human cost of producing the energy source responsible for making the United States the world's preeminent industrial nation. The book also provides a stark warning about the risks of ignoring or denying the existence of an occupational disease. Americans to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Derickson, Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1880-1976.
Berufskrankheit
Staublunge
Kohlenbergbau
Lungs > Dust diseases.
Coal miners > Legal status, laws, etc.
Coal miners > Health and hygiene.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Pneumoconiose.
Mineurs de charbon > Sante et hygiene > États-Unis.
Occupational Health > legislation & jurisprudence
Coal Mining > history
Pneumoconiosis
Coal miners > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Coal miners > Health and hygiene > United States.
Lungs > Dust diseases > United States > History.
USA.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • They spit a black substance
  • Twice a boy
  • The atmosphere of the mine is now vindicated
  • Sheep-like acceptance of half-baked statements
  • To bits
  • Frightening figures
  • Extreme solidarity.

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