The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades
Regulating Occupational Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Seiten
2002
Editions Rodopi B.V. (Verlag)
978-90-420-1218-9 (ISBN)
Editions Rodopi B.V. (Verlag)
978-90-420-1218-9 (ISBN)
This book is the first in-depth study of occupational health in nineteenth and early-twentieth century Britain. As such it is an important contribution to the burgeoning literature on the history of health in the workplace. It focuses on the first four diseases to receive bureaucratic and legislative recognition: lead, arsenic and phosphorus poisoning and anthrax. As such it traces the emergence of medical knowledge and growth in public concern about the impact of these diseases in several major industries including pottery manufacture, matchmaking, wool-sorting and the multifarious trades in which arsenic was used as a raw material. It considers the process of state intervention taking due account of the influence of government inspectors, ‘moral entrepreneurs’ and various interest groups.
Peter Bartrip is Reader in History at University College Northampton and Research Associate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford. Previous books include Mirror of Medicine: A History of the BMJ (1990) and The Way from Dusty Death: Turner & Newall and the Regulation of the British Asbestos Industry, 1890s-1970 (2001).
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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Lead: The Road to Regulation
3. The White Lead Trade
4. Pottery and Earthenware
5. A Kind of Dread: Arsenic and Occupational Health
6. ‘The Poorest of the Poor and the Lowest of the Low’: Lucifer Matches and ‘Phossy Jaw’
7. A Huge Bacterial Bubble: Anthrax in Industry
8. Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
| Reihe/Serie | Clio Medica ; 68 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 225 mm |
| Gewicht | 553 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-420-1218-8 / 9042012188 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-420-1218-9 / 9789042012189 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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