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- Title
Sleights of Hand.
- Authors
McCulloch, Jock
- Abstract
South Africa’s gold mines were the first to compensate silicosis and tuberculosis as occupational diseases. They were also the first mines to introduce a state-sanctioned regime of medical surveillance. Despite those innovations, the major mining houses are currently facing class actions by former miners with occupational lung disease. The obvious reason for this medical and legislative failure is to be found in the economic fabric of South Africa’s gold industry. In this article, I will argue that it is also found in the system of mine medicine, which was designed to hide rather than reveal the actual disease rates.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; INDUSTRIAL hygiene laws; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; DUST diseases; OCCUPATIONAL medicine; MINERAL industries; OCCUPATIONAL diseases
- Publication
New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental & Occupational Health Policy, 2016, Vol 25, Issue 4, p469
- ISSN
1048-2911
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1048291115610432