Magic mineral to killer dust : Turner & Newall and the asbestos hazard

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

"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 & Newall."

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tweedale, Geoffrey (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2000.
Subjects:
Turner & Newall.
Turner & Newall
Asbestos industry > Health aspects > Great Britain.
Asbestos > Toxicology.
Industries.
industries (organizations)
industry (economic concept)
Industries
Asbestos industry > Health aspects
Asbestos > Toxicology
Great Britain
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. 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. Asbestos 'Bomb' Explodes
  • 10. Turner & Newall on Trial
  • 11. Acceptable Level of Death.

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