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The Home Office and the dangerous trades : regulating occupational disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / P.W.J. Bartrip.
LIBRA R131.A1 C48 v.68
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bartrip, P. W. J. (Peter W. J.)
- Series:
- Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 68.
- Wellcome series in the history of medicine
- Clio medica 0045-7183 ; 68
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Occupational diseases--Great Britain--History.
- Occupational diseases.
- Lead poisoning--Great Britain--History.
- Lead poisoning.
- Arsenic--Toxicology--Great Britain--History.
- Arsenic.
- Arsenic--Toxicology.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Occupational Diseases--history.
- Lead Poisoning--history.
- Arsenic Poisoning--history.
- Phosphorus--toxicity.
- Anthrax--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Occupational Diseases--history.
- Lead Poisoning--history.
- Arsenic Poisoning--history.
- Phosphorus--toxicity.
- Anthrax--history.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 344 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2002.
- Contents:
- 2 Lead: The Road to Regulation 59
- 3 The White Lead Trade 81
- 4 Pottery and Earthenware 101
- 5 A Kind of Dread: Arsenic and Occupational Health 137
- 6 'The Poorest of the Poor and the Lowest of the Low': Lucifer Matches and 'Phossy Jaw' 171
- 7 A Huge Bacterial Bubble: Anthrax in Industry 233.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9042012285
- 9042012188
- OCLC:
- 52051425
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