Silicosis - A World History (Relié)

Despite the common perception that "black lung" has been relegated to the dustbin of history, silicosis remains a crucial public health problem that threatens millions of people around the world. This painful and incurable chronic disease, still present old industrial regions, is now expanding rapidly in emerging economies around the globe. In Silicosis, eleven experts argue that silicosis is more than one of the most pressing global ealth concerns today—it is an epidemic in the making.
Essays explain how the understanding f the disease has been shaken by new medical findings and technologies, developments in dustrializing countries, and the spread of the disease to a wide range of professions beyond oal mining. Examining the global reactions to silicosis, the authors trace the history of the 'sense and show how this occupational health hazard first came to be recognized as well as e steps that were necessary to deal with it at that time.
- Adopting a global perspective, Silicosis offers comparative insights into a variety of different medical and political strategies to combat silicosis. It also analyzes the importance of transnational processes — carried on by international organizations and NGOs and sparked y waves of migrant labor—which have been central to the history of silicosis since the early entieth century. Ultimately, by bringing together historians and physicians from around e world, Silicosis pioneers a new collective method of writing the global history of disease.
ilicosis contains lessons that will be applicable not only to people combating the disease but so to people examining other occupational diseases now and in the future.