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Silicosis: A World History
Paul-Andre Rosental
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Description for Silicosis: A World History
Hardback. Editor(s): Rosental, Paul-Andre. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. .
Despite the common perception that black lung has been relegated to the dustbin of history, silicosis remains a crucial public health problem that threatens millions of people around the world. This painful and incurable chronic disease, still present in old industrial regions, is now expanding rapidly in emerging economies around the globe. Most industrial sectors-including the metallurgical, glassworking, foundry, stonecutting, building, and tunneling industries-expose their workers to lethal crystalline silica dust. Dental prosthodontists are also at risk, as are sandblasters, pencil factory workers in developing nations, and anyone who handles concentrated sand squirt to clean oil tanks, build ... Read more
Despite the common perception that black lung has been relegated to the dustbin of history, silicosis remains a crucial public health problem that threatens millions of people around the world. This painful and incurable chronic disease, still present in old industrial regions, is now expanding rapidly in emerging economies around the globe. Most industrial sectors-including the metallurgical, glassworking, foundry, stonecutting, building, and tunneling industries-expose their workers to lethal crystalline silica dust. Dental prosthodontists are also at risk, as are sandblasters, pencil factory workers in developing nations, and anyone who handles concentrated sand squirt to clean oil tanks, build ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421421551
SKU
V9781421421551
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Ref
99-50
About Paul-Andre Rosental
Paul-Andre Rosental is a professor of contemporary history at Sciences Po and a fellow scholar at the Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques. He is the author of Destins de l'eugenisme and a coauthor of La Sante au travail: 1880-2006.
Reviews for Silicosis: A World History
Although the reader may think this could be a heavy read, the book is set out well and it was easy to read. The author enables the reader to understand. It is referenced well. Some books of this genre can be difficult to read, as politics, legal and medical terminology can feel beyond the reader- this was not the case. ... Read more