| Author/Contributor(s): | Derickson, Alan |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Date: | 07/16/1998 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades, the combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of black lung disease--and even to acknowledge its existence--resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.