Black Lung : : Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster / / Alan Derickson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Derickson, Alan,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 11 halftones

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...

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