Turning Men Into Stone: A Social and Medical History of Silicosis in Western Australia, 1890-1970

Until 1926 in WA, when X-ray technology became readily available and financially viable, diagnosis of dust disease in miners was fraught, flawed and at best an educated medical guess. Medical men and miners believed that their ill health was caused by a combination of infection from tuberculosis and exposure to dust, but it was tuberculosis rather than silicosis that became the focus of preventative and…

vii, 244 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm  Includes bibliographical references, endnotes (pages 196-229) and index.  #060822 First Edition. Signed by Author. (inscription)

Silicosis — Western Australia.  |  Lungs — Dust diseases — Western Australia.  |  Miners’ phthisis — Western Australia.  |  Miners — Western Australia.  |  Occupational diseases — Western Australia.  |  Australian  |  Australian