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

Publication Info.	Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., [2002]
	©2002

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	RC775.B9 L48 2002	Available	---

Description	xi, 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Work, health and environment series
	Work, health, and environment series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	By any other name: brown lung and the social recognition of disease -- "Kiss of death": banning the suction shuttle in Massachusetts -- textiles move South, 1920-1940 -- Cotton colic -- The Harvard Cotton Dust Project -- "We were running from it, really": workers' compensation and byssinosis, 1950-1968 -- Georgia and the "mysterious disease" of byssinosis -- Bouhuys' disease -- Brown lung and the dilemmas of a novice investigator, 1968-1969 -- Full circle: "Burlington's disease" -- Brown lung and the lessons for occupational health and saftey.
Subject	Byssinosis -- United States -- History.
	Byssinosis.
	United States.
	History.
	Textile workers -- Diseases -- United States -- History.
	Textile workers -- Diseases.
Added Author	DeLaurier, Gregory F., 1949-
	Dunn, Mary Lee.
ISBN	0895032651 cloth