{"product_id":"deadly-dust-david-rosner-9780472031108","title":"Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the On-Going Struggle to Protect Workers' Health","description":"During the Depression, silicosis, an industrial lung disease, emerged as a national social crisis. Experts estimated that hundreds of thousands of workers were at risk of disease, disability, and death by inhaling silica in mines, foundries, and quarries. By the 1950s, however, silicosis was nearly forgotten by the media and health professionals. Asking what makes a health threat a public issue, David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz examine how a culture defines disease and how disease itself is understood at different moments in history. They also explore the interlocking relationships of public health, labor, business, and government to discuss who should assume responsibility for occupational disease.\u003cbr\u003eBack Cover \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If there is a paradigmatic tale of occupational health . . . \u003ci\u003eDeadly Dust\u003c\/i\u003e is it.\"\u003cbr\u003e--James L. Weeks, \u003ci\u003eScience\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Rosner and Markowitz have produced a carefully crafted history of the rise and fall of this occupational disease, focusing especially on the political forces behind changing disease definitions. . . \u003ci\u003eDeadly Dust \u003c\/i\u003ecomes as a fresh breeze into one of the more stuffy and too often ignored alleys of medical history.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Robert N. Proctor, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of the American Medical Association\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A thought-provoking, densely referenced, uncompromising history. . . Like all good history, it challenges our basic assumptions about how the world is ordered and offers both factual information and a conceptual framework for rethinking what we 'know'.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Rosemary K. Sokas, \u003ci\u003eThe New England Journal of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBack Cover continued\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDeadly Dust\u003c\/i\u003e raises an important methodological problem that has long gone underarticulated in medical historical circles: how can social historians of medicine offer political or economic explanations for the scientific efforts of their professional subjects without losing a grip on the biological aspects of disease?\"\u003cbr\u003e--Christopher Sellers, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of the History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A sophisticated understanding of how class and conflict shape social, economic, political, and intellectual change underlies this first attempt at a history of occupational health spanning the twentieth century.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Claudia Clark, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\" \u003cbr\u003e\"This volume is well worth reading as a significant contribution to American social history.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Charles O. Jackson, \u003ci\u003eThe American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Rosner\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of History and Sociomedical Sciences, and Director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerald Markowitz\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472031104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472031108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.81d","brand":"David Rosner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919894249727,"sku":"9780472031108","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9fd02a52-c8af-43a3-b5e6-e033fc61e998.jpg?v=1680812494","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/deadly-dust-david-rosner-9780472031108","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}