Deadly Dust
Subtitle: Silicosis and the On-Going Struggle to Protect Workers' Health (Conversations in Medicine and Society)
Edition: 1 New Exp edition
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: June 12, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780472031108
Subjects: Environmental factors; Respiratory medicine; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Public Health; United States - 20th Century; History; Occupational & Industrial Medicine; Medical / Public Health; Occupational diseases; Political aspects; Silicosis; Social aspects; United States
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."