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The cotton dust papers : science, politics, and power in the "discovery" of byssinosis in the U.S. / by Charles Levenstein and Gregroy F. DeLaurier, with Mary Lee Dunn.

Title
  1. The cotton dust papers : science, politics, and power in the "discovery" of byssinosis in the U.S. / by Charles Levenstein and Gregroy F. DeLaurier, with Mary Lee Dunn.
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  1. Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., [2002], ©2002.

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Additional authors
  1. DeLaurier, Gregory F., 1949-
  2. Dunn, Mary Lee.
  3. Levenstein, Charles.
Description
  1. xi, 160 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Work, health and environment series
Uniform title
  1. Work, health, and environment series.
Subject
  1. Textile Industry
  2. Textile workers > Diseases > United States > History
  3. Byssinosis > history
  4. Byssinosis > United States > History
  5. United States
Contents
  1. Ch. 1. By Any Other Name: Brown Lung and The Social Recognition of Disease -- Ch. 2. "Kiss of Death": Banning the Suction Shuttle in Massachusetts / William Mass, Charles Levenstein and Gregory F. DeLaurier -- Ch. 3. Textiles Move South, 1920-1940 -- Ch. 4. Cotton Colic -- Ch. 5. The Harvard Cotton Dust Project / Charles Levenstein and Susan Woskie -- Ch. 6. "We Were Running from It, Really": Workers' Compensation and Byssinosis, 1950-1968 -- Ch. 7. Georgia and the "Mysterious Disease" of Byssinosis -- Ch. 8. Bouhuys' Disease -- Ch. 9. Brown Lung and the Dilemmas of a Novice Investigator, 1968-1969 -- Ch. 10. Full Circle: "Burlington's Disease" -- Ch. 11. Brown Lung and the Lessons for Occupational Health and Safety.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.