Deadly Dust
by David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz
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During the Depression, silicosis, an industrial lung disease, emerged as a national social crisis. Experts estimated that hundreds of thousands of workers were at risk of disease, disability, and death by inhaling silica in mines, foundries, and quarries. By the 1950s, however, silicosis was nearly forgotten by the media and health professionals. Asking what makes a health threat a public issue, David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz examine how a culture defines disease and how disease itself is show more understood at different moments in history. They also consider who should assume responsibility for occupational disease. show lessTags
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David Rosner is Professor of Public Health and History at Columbia University and Codirector of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health
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- Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government
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- 616.2 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Diseases, Allergies, Skin Conditions Diseases of respiratory system
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- RC774 .R67 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Specialties of internal medicine Diseases of the respiratory system
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