Magic Mineral to Killer Dust

Geoffrey Tweedale is a Principal Lecturer in the Centre for Business History, Manchester Metropolitan University. since 1983 he has specialised in the History of Business, Technology, and Medicine, and more recently has held research posts at Manchester and Sheffield universities. His previous publications include Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Technology in Sheffield, 1843-1993 (OUP, 1995)

• A Physical Paradox ; Dust Control and Mortality: 1931 to the 1940s ; Medical Provision, Diagnosis, and Prescription ; Compensation for Asbestos Workers ; Death by Industrial Disease ; Dust, Mortality, and the Cancer Hazard: 1940s to the early 1960s ; Countervailing Forces ; Lighting the Powder Trail ; The Asbestos 'Bomb' Explodes ; Turner & Newall on Trial ; An Acceptable Level of Death ; References

this is an excellent book, not only for the industrial health and safety professional, but for any reader interested in the problems of technology, and of managing the attendant risks: and for anyone interested (and that should be all of us) in the problems associated with achieving consensus on what is 'acceptable' risk. I fully commend it and heartily recommend it.