LEADER 04253nam 2200709 450 001 9910465562103321 005 20210701021617.0 010 $a0-8014-7154-0 010 $a1-322-52307-X 010 $a0-8014-7155-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801471551 035 $a(CKB)3710000000216389 035 $a(OCoLC)889302629 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10904429 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001290380 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12517218 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001290380 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11236560 035 $a(PQKB)11786668 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138637 035 $a(OCoLC)966765218 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51819 035 $a(DE-B1597)478546 035 $a(OCoLC)979740592 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801471551 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138637 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904429 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683589 035 $a(OCoLC)922998687 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000216389 100 $a20140815h20141998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlack lung $eanatomy of a public health disaster /$fAlan Derickson 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ1998 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-8014-3186-7 311 0 $a0-8014-8286-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-228) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tIllustrations --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAbbreviations --$t1. They Spit a Black Substance --$t2. Twice a Boy --$t3. The Atmosphere of the Mine Is Now Vindicated --$t4. Sheep-like Acceptance of Half-Baked Statements --$t5. To Bits --$t6. Frightening Figures --$t7. Extreme Solidarity --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades after methods of prevention were known, hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of this disease-and even to acknowledge its existence-resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.The book begins in the late nineteenth century, when the disorders brought on by exposure to coal mine dust were first identified as components of a debilitating and distinctive illness. For several decades thereafter, coal miners' dust disease was accepted, in both lay and professional circles, as a major industrial disease. Derickson describes how after the turn of the century medical professionals and industry representatives worked to discredit and supplant knowledge about black lung, with such success that this disease ceased to be recognized. Many authorities maintained that breathing coal mine dust was actually beneficial to health.Derickson shows that activists ultimately forced society to overcome its complacency about this deadly and preventable disease. He chronicles the growth of an unprecedented movement-from the turn-of-the-century miners' union, to the social medicine activists in the mid-twentieth century, and the black lung insurgents of the late sixties-which eventually won landmark protections and compensation with the enactment of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act in 1969. An extraordinary work of scholarship, Black Lung exposes the enormous human cost of producing the energy source responsible for making the United States the world's preeminent industrial nation. 606 $aLungs$xDust diseases$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCoal miners$xHealth and hygiene$zUnited States 606 $aCoal miners$xLegal status, laws, etc$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLungs$xDust diseases$xHistory. 615 0$aCoal miners$xHealth and hygiene 615 0$aCoal miners$xLegal status, laws, etc. 676 $a616.2/44 700 $aDerickson$b Alan$01027667 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465562103321 996 $aBlack lung$92443250 997 $aUNINA