Magic mineral to killer dust : Turner & Newall and the asbestos hazard / Geoffrey Tweedale, with additional research by Philip Hansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tweedale, Geoffrey, author.

Contributor:

Hansen, Philip, contributor.

Turner & Newall, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asbestos industry--Health aspects--Great Britain.

Asbestos industry.

Asbestos--Toxicology.

Asbestos.

Turner & Newall.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 313 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Asbestos was once known as the magic mineral because of its ability to withstand flames. Yet since the 1970s, it has become a notorious and feared killer dust, responsible for thousands of deaths and an epidemic that will continue for years to come.

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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Graphs

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

1. A Physical Paradox

2. Dust Control and Mortality: 1931 to the 1940s

3. Medical Provision, Diagnosis, and Prescription

4. Compensation for Asbestos Workers

5. Death by Industrial Disease

6. Dust, Mortality, and the Cancer Hazard: 1940s to the Early 1960s

7. Countervailing Forces

8. Lighting the Powder Trail

9. The Asbestos 'Bomb' Explodes

10. Turner &amp

Newall on Trial

11. An Acceptable Level of Death

Afterword: 'Damn You, Turner Brothers'

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [294]-304) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-166024-8

1-280-81519-1

9786610815197

0-585-37639-5

OCLC:

922973028