Black Lung : : Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster / / Alan Derickson.
In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how for decades after methods of prevention were known hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The co...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 11 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Illustrations
- Contents
- 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