Magic Mineral to Killer Dust

Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-829690-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 681 g

Asbestos was once known as the 'magic mineral' because of its ability to withstand flames. Yet since the 1960s, it has become a notorious and feared 'killer dust' that is responsible for thousands of deaths and an epidemic that will continue into the millennium. This is the first comprehensive history of the UK asbestos health problem, which provides an in-depth look at the occupational health experience of one of the world's leading asbestos companies - British asbestos giant, Turner and Newall. Based on a vast company archive recently released in American litigation, Magic Mineral to Killer Dust gives an unprecedented insight into all aspects of the asbestos hazard - dust control, workmen's compensation, government regulation, and the development of medical knowledge. In particular, it looks at the role of industrialists, doctors, factory inspectors, and trade unionists, highlighting the failures in regulation that accompanied the commercial development of a material that was already known to be lethal at the start of the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tweedale, Geoffrey

Hansen, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Petrologie, Mineralogie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Pneumologie, Atmung, Asthma
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- A Physical Paradox

- Dust Control and Mortality: 1931 to the 1940s

- Medical Provision, Diagnosis, and Prescription

- Compensation for Asbestos Workers

- Death by Industrial Disease

- Dust, Mortality, and the Cancer Hazard: 1940s to the early 1960s

- Countervailing Forces

- Lighting the Powder Trail

- The Asbestos 'Bomb' Explodes

- Turner and Newall on Trial

- An Acceptable Level of Death

- References

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey Tweedale is a Principal Lecturer in the Centre for Business History, Manchester Metropolitan University. since 1983 he has specialised in the History of Business, Technology, and Medicine, and more recently has held research posts at Manchester and Sheffield universities. His previous publications include Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Technology in Sheffield, 1843-1993 (OUP, 1995)