Defending the indefensible [[electronic resource] ] : the global asbestos industry and its fight for survival / / Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale |
Autore | McCulloch Jock <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.1791 |
Altri autori (Persone) | TweedaleGeoffrey |
Soggetto topico |
Asbestos industry - History - 20th century
Asbestos industry - Health aspects Asbestos industry - Corrupt practices |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-77013-2
9786611770136 0-19-156008-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Making the World Safe; 3. Building the Defences; 4. The Challenge of Mesothelioma and Irving J. Selikoff; 5. The Chrysotile Defence; 6. Hiding the Elephant of Compensation; 7. Don't Disturb the Dog: Asbestos in the Environment; 8. Pushing Asbestos in the Developing World; 9. Defending Asbestos: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives; Sources and Acknowledgements; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453659103321 |
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Defending the indefensible [[electronic resource] ] : the global asbestos industry and its fight for survival / / Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale |
Autore | McCulloch Jock <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.1791 |
Altri autori (Persone) | TweedaleGeoffrey |
Soggetto topico |
Asbestos industry - History - 20th century
Asbestos industry - Health aspects Asbestos industry - Corrupt practices |
ISBN |
1-383-04471-6
0-19-160896-3 1-281-77013-2 9786611770136 0-19-156008-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Making the World Safe; 3. Building the Defences; 4. The Challenge of Mesothelioma and Irving J. Selikoff; 5. The Chrysotile Defence; 6. Hiding the Elephant of Compensation; 7. Don't Disturb the Dog: Asbestos in the Environment; 8. Pushing Asbestos in the Developing World; 9. Defending Asbestos: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives; Sources and Acknowledgements; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782401103321 |
McCulloch Jock <1945->
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 | ||
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Defending the indefensible [[electronic resource] ] : the global asbestos industry and its fight for survival / / Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale |
Autore | McCulloch Jock <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.1791 |
Altri autori (Persone) | TweedaleGeoffrey |
Soggetto topico |
Asbestos industry - History - 20th century
Asbestos industry - Health aspects Asbestos industry - Corrupt practices |
ISBN |
1-383-04471-6
0-19-160896-3 1-281-77013-2 9786611770136 0-19-156008-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Making the World Safe; 3. Building the Defences; 4. The Challenge of Mesothelioma and Irving J. Selikoff; 5. The Chrysotile Defence; 6. Hiding the Elephant of Compensation; 7. Don't Disturb the Dog: Asbestos in the Environment; 8. Pushing Asbestos in the Developing World; 9. Defending Asbestos: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives; Sources and Acknowledgements; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820743703321 |
McCulloch Jock <1945->
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 | ||
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Mining gold and manufacturing ignorance : occupational lung disease and the buying and selling of labour in Southern Africa / / Jock McCulloch, Pavla Miller |
Autore | McCulloch Jock <1945-> |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 459 pages) |
Disciplina | 613.62 |
Soggetto topico |
Gold miners - Diseases - South Africa
Gold mines and mining - Health aspects - South Africa Lungs - Dust diseases - South Africa Migrant labor - South Africa |
ISBN | 981-19-8327-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction. -- Chapter 2: A most modern industry: the migrant labour system and crisis management: 1880 -2022 -- Chapter 3: Mapping and resolving a health crisis: 1902 -1929 -- Chapter 4: Identifying risk and compensating tuberculosis: 1916 - 1957 -- Chapter 5: Lifting the ban on the recruitment of Tropical labour: 1933-1945 -- Chapter 6: The research community, risk and evidence: 1912 - 1932 -- Chapter 7: Tuberculosis, malnutrition and mining in South Africa: 1903 - 1960,- Chapter 8: Tuberculosis and migrant labour in the High Commission Territories: Bechuanaland: 1985-1998 -- Chapter 9: Tuberculosis and migrant labour in the High Commission Territories: Basutoland and Swaziland: 1912-2005 -- Chapter 10: Contests over labour in British central African colonies: 1935 - 1953 -- Chapter 11: Dissenting voices: 1902 -1956 -- Chapter 12: The career of A. J. Orenstein: 1914 - -1960 -- Chapter 13: Technologies, care and repatriations: 1926-1966 -- Chapter 14: Things fall apart: independent research, asbestos litigation, and the gold miners’ class action: 1983 - 2019 -- Chapter 15: Conclusion: records, bodies and contested justice. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910682556603321 |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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