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Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Fiber Carcinogenesis (Current Communications in Cell and Molecular Biology)

Airborne fibers have long been recognized as a major health hazard in certain industries and exposure to fibers in the general environment may also cause adverse effects such as cancer, in particular, mesothelioma. Asbestos is the best-known fiber carcinogen and, in the construction industry, is being widely replaced by substitute materials. Yet to perform properly, [...]

Lethal Work: A History of the Asbestos Tragedy in Scotland

Asbestos destroys people\’s lives. Asbestos-related diseases now account for some 400 deaths every year in Scotland, with many more being severely disabled. This number is still increasing, due to the Continue reading

Pathology of Malignant Mesothelioma

• Only up-to-date title in the market • Current topic with significant media coverage • Internationally relevant, the use of asbestos and its consequences is a global problem • This title Continue reading

White Dust Black Death: The Tragedy of Asbestos Mining at Baryulgil

This book represents a few threads of a complex weaving; a small part of a story of the Baryulgil Asbestos Mine and its disastrous effects upon Bundjalung People and others. Continue reading

An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana Uncovered a National Scandal

The horrifying true story of the decades-long poisoning of a small town and the definitive exposé of asbestos in America-told by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who broke it. In a valley in Continue reading

Another round of asbestos legislation.: An article from: Trial

This digital document is an article from Trial, published by Association of Trial Lawyers of America on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 813 words. The page length shown above is based on a Continue reading

Way From Dusty Death: Turner and Newall and the Regulation of the British Asbestos Industry 1890s-1970

This study explores the regulation of occupational health in the British asbestos industry from the recognition in the late 1890s that asbestos dust might pose a health hazard until the establishment Continue reading

White Dust Black Death: The Tragedy of Asbestos Mining at Baryulgil

This book represents a few threads of a complex weaving; a small part of a story of the Baryulgil Asbestos Mine and its disastrous effects upon Bundjalung People and others.
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