Deadly Dust
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 25, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780691037714
Subjects: Environmental factors; Epidemiology & medical statistics; Respiratory medicine; History; Occupational & Industrial Medicine; United States - 20th Century; American History; History / United States / 20th Century; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Political Science and International Relations; Medical / Nursing; Health/Fitness
First sentence: EARLY in the twentieth century, officials of the Granite Cutters' Union in Barre, Vermont, complained that consumption, "the white man's scourge," was "claiming almost every granite cutter in this vicinity, before he reaches the age of fifty."