The way from dusty death
Subtitle: Turner and Newall and the regulation of occupational health in the British asbestos industry 1890s-1970
By: P.W.J. Bartrip.
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Turner & Newall.; Asbestos industry -- Health aspects -- Great Britain.; Asbestos -- Toxicology.; Industrial hygiene -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.
Description: "This study explores the regulation of occupational health in the British asbestos industry from recognition in the late 1890s that asbestos dust might pose a health hazard until the establishment of the 1969 Asbestos Regulations. Whereas almost all of those who have written on this subject have attacked the entire asbestos industry and all its works, The Way from Dusty Death takes a more balanced view. It accepts the history of asbestos and health as in many ways a human tragedy, but it rejects simplistic, universalised arguments that this has been a tragedy with a cast only of villains, dupes and victims."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.