Cotton Dust Papers - Science, Politics, Power in Discovery of Byssinosis in U.s

List of contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1.
By Any Other Name: Brown Lung and The Social Recognition of Disease
CHAPTER 2.
“Kiss of Death”: Banning the Suction Shuttle in Massachusetts by William Mass, Charles Levenstein, and Gregory F. DeLaurier
CHAPTER 3.
Textiles Move South, 1920-1940
CHAPTER 4.
“Cotton Colic”
CHAPTER 5.
The Harvard Cotton Dust Project by Charles Levenstein and Susan Woskie
CHAPTER 6.
“We Were Running from It, Really”: Workers’ Compensation and Byssinosis, 1950-1968
CHAPTER 7.
Georgia and the “Mysterious Disease” of Byssinosis
CHAPTER 8.
Bouhuys’ Disease
CHAPTER 9.
Brown Lung and the Dilemmas of a Novice Investigator, 1968-1969
CHAPTER 10.
Full Circle: “Burlington’s Disease”
CHAPTER 11.
Brown Lung and the Lessons for Occupational Health and Safety
Index

About the author

Charles Levenstein, Gregory Delaurier, Mary Lee Dunn

Summary

Presents a story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the US of this pernicious occupational disease. This title explores three instances from the 1930s to the 1960s in which evidence suggested the existence of brown lung in the mills, yet nothing was done.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Delaurier, Gregory F. DeLaurier, Mary Lee Dunn, Dunn Mary Lee, Charles Levenstein, Charles Delaurier Levenstein, Levenstein Charles
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2017
• EAN: 9780415784382
• ISBN: 978-0-415-78438-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Work, Health and Environment Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; USA, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, MEDICAL / Occupational & Industrial Medicine, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political science & theory, Environmental factors, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Occupational medicine, Textile Industries, Apparel, garment and textile industries, MEDICAL / Environmental Health