...Jock McCulloch Bartrip, P. J. W. 2001 . The Way from Dusty Death: Turner and Newall and the Regulation of Occupational Health in the British Asbestos Industry, 1890-1970 . London: Athlone. ____. 2003 . Irving John Selikoff and the Strange Case of the Missing Medical Degrees. Journal...

.... DOI 10.1215/03616878-2007-014 Peter Bartrip. Beyond the Factory Gates: Asbestos and Health in Twentieth Century America. London: Continuum, 2006. 264 pp. $150.00 cloth. In the three decades after 1945, the asbestos industries in North America and Western European enjoyed spectacular growth...

.... Journal of Health Poli- tics, Policy and Law 28:715 – 746. Wanless, D. 2001. Securing Our Future Health: Interim Report. London: Treasury. DOI 10.1215/03616878-2007-014 Peter Bartrip. Beyond the Factory Gates: Asbestos and Health in Twentieth Century...

.... 2001. Securing Our Future Health: Interim Report. London: Treasury. DOI 10.1215/03616878-2007-014 Peter Bartrip. Beyond the Factory Gates: Asbestos and Health in Twentieth Century America. London: Continuum, 2006. 264 pp. $150.00 cloth. In the three...

... it is expected to yield. There are no “ifs” involved, for the imperatives of morality command categorically. For the deontologist, “misconduct is wrong not because we disapprove of it, but we disapprove of it because wrong.“5it is On entering the asbestos mill with the atmosphere so full...

... principle interests are in occupational health and contemporary African history. He is the author of eight books including Asbestos: Its Human Cost (1984), Asbestos Blues (2002), a history of South African mining, and with Geoffrey Twee- dale, Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry...

... but delayed medical effects (radiation, asbestos, occupational carcinogens, dioxin), control should be based on environ- mental measures. Withholding information on exposures and their effects because of con- cern about “panic,” “worry,” “unrest,” or “unnecessary anxiety...

... against asbestos suppliers and manufacturers appears to represent the initial phase of a vast ex- pansion in the litigation of so-called toxic torts.” The recent growth of toxic tort suits has also made manifest the inadequacies of the common law in dealing with injuries resulting from...

... protective than in the U.S. The clearest example is asbestos. The policy of the U.S. regulatory agency does not include a prohibition for the production and use of asbestos in industry. And the U.S. norm of occupational exposure is widely regarded as grossly inadequate. As a contrast, Sweden has...

.... It is often impossible to identify all the potential victims or the specific manu- facturer and distributor of the substance to which any one individual was exposed. Asbestos, DES (diethylstilbesterol), and the accident at Bhopal are the best- known examples of toxic torts that have reached the courts...

... in disease causality has also been challenged. Sterling reports on a dozen studies of asbestos, coke oven, copper and uranium workers which all suggest that these individuals’ exposures to occupational carcinogens, not their smoking, caused their cancer.29Point- ing out that “human-type lung cancer...

... . Annual Deaths Attributable to Obesity in the United States. Journal of the American Medical Association 282 : 1530 -1538. Baltimore Sun. 2003 . The Costs of Obesity [Editorial], May 9. Behrens, Mark A. 2002 . Some Proposals for Courts Interested in Solving Serious Problems in Asbestos...

... Medical Association Journal 149 ( 10 ): 1401 -1407. Lilienfeld , D. E. 1991 . The Silence: The Asbestos Industry and Early Occupational Cancer Research—A Case Study. American Journal of Public Health 81 ( 6 ): 791 -800. Lundberg , G. D. , and A. Flanagin. 1989 . New Requirements...

... joined the faculty of the then Rutgers Medical School. He teaches occupational medicine, environmen- tal health, toxicology, and risk assessment. His clinical work focuses on people exposed to occupational and environmental hazards, such as asbestos...

..., byssinosis, silicosis, coal mining, vinyl chlo- ride, and asbestos. Her most recently published book is Response to Occupational Health Hazarh: A Historical Perspective. David Falcone is professor and chair of the Department of Health Administration and Policy, College of Public Health...

.... Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 2006. 404 pp. $71.95 cloth. History and Humanities Beyond the Factory Gates: Asbestos and Health in Twentieth Century America. Peter Bartrip. New York: Continuum, 2006. 265 pp. $150.00 cloth. Biomedicalization of Alcohol Studies: Ideological Shifts and Institutional...

...: asbestos-related lung disease, workplace injuries, product-related injury, environ- mentally induced cancer, lead poisoning in children, vaccine-induced diseases, cancer from the radioactive fallout of one’s neighbor’s detonations. When such cases come to trial, traditional tort principles...

... solutions for individual clients, he fails to appreciate the impact that the asbestos lawsuits and others have had on creating a political and social crisis that stimulated collective responses through union and regulatory activity. Overall, this is an important book for anyone concerned about...

... solutions for individual clients, he fails to appreciate the impact that the asbestos lawsuits and others have had on creating a political and social crisis that stimulated collective responses through union and regulatory activity. Overall, this is an important book for anyone concerned about...

... in the area of environmental and food and drug law, with specific focus on environmental litigation and medical device counseling. He assisted in the management and coordination of group and class-action litigation with respect to cases involving asbestos, silica, safety equipment, and noise pollution...