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Defending the Indefensible

Author : Jock McCulloch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191608963
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Defending the Indefensible written by Jock McCulloch and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, asbestos had a reputation as a lifesaver. In 1960, however, it became known that even relatively brief exposure to asbestos can cause mesothelioma, a virulent and lethal cancer. Yet the bulk of the world's asbestos was mined after 1960. Asbestos usage in many countries continued unabated. This is the first global history of how the asbestos industry and its allies in government, insurance, and medicine defended the product throughout the twentieth century. It explains how mining and manufacture could continue despite overwhelming medical evidence as to the risks. The argument advanced in this book is that asbestos has proved so enduring because the industry was able to mount a successful defense strategy for the mineral - a strategy that still operates in some parts of the world. This defence involved the shaping of the public debate by censoring, and sometimes corrupting, scientific research, nurturing scientific uncertainty, and using allies in government, insurance, and medicine. The book also discusses the problems of asbestos in the environment, compensating victims, and the continued use of asbestos in the developing world. Its global focus shows how asbestos can be seen as a model for many occupational diseases - indeed for a whole range of hazards produced by industrial societies. The book is based on a wealth of documentary material gained from legal discovery, supplemented by evidence from the authors' visits and researches in the US, the UK, Canada, Kazakhstan, Zimbabwe, Australia, Swaziland, and South Africa.

Beyond the Factory Gates

Author : Peter Bartrip
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441188185
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Factory Gates written by Peter Bartrip and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Factory Gates examines the issue of asbestos and health in the USA between the early 1900's to the mid-1970s. Areas covered include the emergence of medical concern about the three fatal diseases related to asbestos (asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma); the actions of the US Navy (the main consumer of asbestos-based insulation products); the response of the federal government before and after enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970; and the roles of organized labour and the asbestos industry. The book provides an important insight into occupational health and its regulation in twentieth century America, and is original in several ways. First, there is no satisfactory history of asbestos, health and medicine in the USA - a major gap in the literature. Second, no previous publication has examined the asbestos issue 'beyond the factory gates' in a non-manufacturing context and explored the complex interactions between organised labour, the US Government, business corporations and the US navy. Finally, Beyond the Factory Gates avoids the one-sided, anti-business interpretations that predominate much of the existing literature. It accepts that the history of asbestos is in many ways a human tragedy, but it rejects simplistic, universalised arguments that this has been a tragedy with a cast only villains, dupes and victims.

The Asbestos Industry

Author : Oliver Bowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Asbestos Industry written by Oliver Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Asbestos Industry

Author : Oliver Bowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Asbestos Industry written by Oliver Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1655 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Asbestos Industry in the United States

Author : Carroll H. Bessey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book The Asbestos Industry in the United States written by Carroll H. Bessey and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Asbestos

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309101697
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Asbestos written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-09-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In conjunction with drafting comprehensive legislation concerning compensation for health effects related to asbestos exposure (the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Act), the Senate Committee on the Judiciary directed the Institute of Medicine to assemble the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects. This committee was charged with addressing whether asbestos exposure is causally related to adverse health consequences in addition to asbestosis, mesothelioma, and lung cancer. Asbestos: Selected Cancers presents the committee's comprehensive distillation of the peer-reviewed scientific and medical literature regarding association between asbestos and colorectal, laryngeal, esophageal, pharyngeal, and stomach cancers.

Code of Fair Competition for the Asbestos Industry

Author : United States. National Recovery Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Code of Fair Competition for the Asbestos Industry written by United States. National Recovery Administration and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fatal Deception

Author : Michael Bowker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743251431
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Fatal Deception written by Michael Bowker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STILL LEGAL, STILL LETHAL Most Americans mistakenly believe asbestos was banned long ago. In fact, it is still legal and can still kill you. Its microscopic fibers cause painful and incurable diseases. Despite being outlawed in nearly every other industrialized country, asbestos remains a legal component of more than three thousand common products in the United States. These include toasters, washers/dryers, ovens, building supplies, and automobile brakes. Our confusion about asbestos is no accident. Fatal Deception is a chilling exposé of the asbestos industry's successful seventy-year campaign to hide the deadly effects of its products from the American people. The stakes are high -- tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Michael Bowker rips the cover off the decades of deceit, including the treachery in Libby, Montana, site of the most deadly environmental disaster in U.S. history. He also unveils a startling and ongoing cover-up at Ground Zero -- where thousands of New Yorkers may still be suffering from exposure to dangerous levels of asbestos fibers. Compelling, enraging, and very timely, Fatal Deception is not just a fascinating story, it is a plea to the government and to the American people to help sponsor research into asbestos-related diseases -- and a call to arms to ban asbestos now.

Asbestos

Author : Barry I. Castleman
Publisher : Wolters Kluwer
ISBN 13 : 0735552606
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Asbestos written by Barry I. Castleman and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the leading asbestos experts for attorneys, occupational and environmental health professionals, and others in the field of toxic substances control, this updated resource provides a comprehensive examination of the public health history of asbestos. Includes extensive discussion of corporate knowledge and responsibility for asbestos hazards and detailed discussion of alternatives to asbestos.

The Asbestos Hazard

Author : Paul Brodeur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book The Asbestos Hazard written by Paul Brodeur and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PUBLISHED ALSO AS VOLUME 330 OF THE ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

The Economic Development of the Asbestos Industry in Vermont

Author : Vianney Roger Ferland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Economic Development of the Asbestos Industry in Vermont written by Vianney Roger Ferland and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Asbestos Worker

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Asbestos Worker written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Asbestos and Health

Author : Cancer Information Clearinghouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Asbestos and Health written by Cancer Information Clearinghouse and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Asbestos and the Asbestos Industry

Author : Alfred Leonard Summers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Asbestos and the Asbestos Industry written by Alfred Leonard Summers and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outrageous Misconduct

Author : Paul Brodeur
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outrageous Misconduct written by Paul Brodeur and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1985 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Manville Corporation filed under Chapter 11 of the federal Bankruptcy Code in 1982, it was the most financially healthy company ever to do so. Its action temporarily halted product-liability lawsuits brought against the company by the victims of asbestos-related cancer and other diseases. "Outrageous Misconduct" updates Paul Brodeur's remarkable four-part series of articles on the asbestos industry that appeared in "The New Yorker". It examines Manville's unprecedented -- and headline-making -- maneuver; it exposes the efforts of other asbestos manufacturers to avoid compensating asbestos victims; and it reveals the involvement of some of the nation's highest officials in trying to bail out the asbestos industry from its financial and legal difficulties. In "Outrageous Misconduct" Brodeur reveals in depth and detail the story of how Manville and other companies effected a fifty-year coverup of the asbestos hazard. He also tells the story of how a handful of dedicated trial lawyers have pieced together the overwhelming evidence of this coverup and used it in courtrooms across the nation to win hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from the asbestos industry and its insurers. -- From publisher's description.

The asbestos lie. The past and present of an industrial catastrophe

Author : Maria Roselli, journalist
Publisher : ETUI
ISBN 13 : 2874523135
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book The asbestos lie. The past and present of an industrial catastrophe written by Maria Roselli, journalist and published by ETUI. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades asbestos was considered an ideal substance and therefore was called 'the mineral of the twentieth century'. Even though the fiber had already proven much earlier to cause various ailments, a real boom began in the 1950s and prospered everywhere in Europe. This book retraces the history of the Swiss asbestos cement company Eternit, investigating the strategy it developed – together with other asbestos industrialists – to prevent this carcinogen from being outlawed until, in 1999, an EU Directive was finally adopted to this end. The book also reviews the struggle of the asbestos workers and their families to gain official recognition of, and compensation for, the harm suffered.

The Ways of the Development of the Asbestos Industry

Author : N. S. Mikheieff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book The Ways of the Development of the Asbestos Industry written by N. S. Mikheieff and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: