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RECORD NUMBER: 453 OF 1949

Main Title Deadly dust : silicosis and the politics of occupational disease in twentieth-century America /
Author Rosner, David
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Markowitz, Gerald E.
Publisher Princeton University Press,
Year Published 1991
OCLC Number 22763015
ISBN 0691047588 (alk. paper) :
Subjects Silicosis--United States ; Occupational diseases--Social aspects--United States ; Occupational diseases--Political aspects--United States ; History of Medicine, 20th Cent--United States ; Occupational Diseases--history--United States ; Politics--United States ; Silicosis--history--United States ; Social Environment--United States
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ERAM  RC774.R67 1991 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 06/04/2004
Collation xiii, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes
"Cabinet of curiosities": silicosis and the recognition of industrial disease -- Foundries and the silicosis problem -- "This king of occupational diseases-silicosis" -- "Those that are competent to speak" -- "Street of walking death": silicosis in the tri-state -- Last gasps: the death of the silicosis issue.