Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Photographs
- Preface: South Africa in the Twentieth Century
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- A Brief Chronology
- 1 Gold Mining & Life-Threatening Disease
- 2 Creating a Medical System
- 3 Compensation
- 4 A White Science
- 5 Myth Making & the 1930 Silicosis Conference
- 6 Tuberculosis & Tropical Labour
- 7 Conflict over the Compensation System
- 8 Healing Miners
- 9 The Sick Shall Work
- 10 Men Without Qualities
- Select Bibliography
- Index
List of Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Photographs
- Preface: South Africa in the Twentieth Century
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- A Brief Chronology
- 1 Gold Mining & Life-Threatening Disease
- 2 Creating a Medical System
- 3 Compensation
- 4 A White Science
- 5 Myth Making & the 1930 Silicosis Conference
- 6 Tuberculosis & Tropical Labour
- 7 Conflict over the Compensation System
- 8 Healing Miners
- 9 The Sick Shall Work
- 10 Men Without Qualities
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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- South Africa's Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis , pp. xx - xxiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012