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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Alan Derickson
This book analyzes advocacy by public and private agents for fuller disclosure to endangered workers of the nature of toxic chemicals and other occupational health hazards in the United States…
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Dangerously Sleepy explores the fraught relations between overwork, sleep deprivation, and public health. Health and labor historian Alan Derickson charts the cultural and political forces behind the overvaluation-and masculinization-of wakefulness…
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First recognised as a major industrial disease in the late 19th century, black lung was redefined out of existence by administrative authorities, who said breathing coal dust was good for…
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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…
This provocative work explores the invention and reinvention of a fundamental goal of American social policy - universal health care. In Health Security for All, Alan Derickson examines the emergence…
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