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9780195053654

The Health and Safety of Workers Case Studies in the Politics of Professional Responsibility

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195053654

  • ISBN10:

    0195053656

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1988-05-19
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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List Price: $52.27

Summary

This volume uses three case studies involving the dangers of lead, coal, and asbestos to explore the role of scientists in the discovery and regulation of occupational hazards. The cases draw upon detailed historical evidence, and illustrate the factors and conditions that make possible--or deter--the development of responsible, ethical behavior on the part of scientists and engineers.

Table of Contents

Private Power, Private Knowledge, and Public Health, 1900-1970
Science, Engineering, and Lead Poisoning
Health and Safety in Underground Coalmining, 1900-1969
Professional Conduct in a Peripheral Industry
Failed Warnings
Asbestos-Related Disease and Industrial Medicine
Scientists, Engineers, and the Burdens of Occupational Exposure
The Case of the Lead Standard
Moral Dimensions of Occupational Health
The Case of the 1969 Coal Mine Safety and Health Act
Regulating Asbestos
Ethics, Politics and the Values of Science
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