Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Peter Bartrip (University of Oxford, UK)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.540kg
ISBN: 9780826488367
ISBN 10: 0826488366
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 10 January 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
Bartrip carefully outlines the stages through which knowledge of asbestos dust as a danger evolved. The author is evenhanded, particularly on the politics behind OSHA's role. Health sciences libraries supporting occupational and public health programs will find this book useful --R. D. Arcari Choice Reviews.online
Bartrip carefully outlines the stages through which knowledge of asbestos dust as a danger evolved. The author is evenhanded, particularly on the politics behind OSHA's role. Health sciences libraries supporting occupational and public health programs will find this book useful -- R. D. Arcari * Choice Reviews.online *
""Bartrip carefully outlines the stages through which knowledge of asbestos dust as a danger evolved. The author is evenhanded, particularly on the politics behind OSHA's role. Health sciences libraries supporting occupational and public health programs will find this book useful"" -- R. D. Arcari * Choice Reviews.online *
Author Information
Peter Bartrip is Research Associate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, UK. He has published a number of previous books on occupational health, including The Way from Dusty Death and Mirror of Medicine: History of the BMJ.
