Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects, 5th ed.RC775 2004-024408 0-7355-5260-6 Asbestos; medical and legal aspects, 5th ed. Castleman, Barry I. Aspen aspen, in botany aspen: see willow. Aspen, city, United States Aspen (ăs`pən), city (1990 pop. 5,049), alt. 7,850 ft (2,390 m), seat of Pitkin co., S central Colo. Publishers, Inc., [c]2005 894 p. $175.00 In doctoral dissertation-based "defensive research," Castleman traces the history of awareness of the health risks of asbestosis asbestosis Lung disease caused by long-term inhalation of asbestos fibres. A pneumoconiosis found primarily in asbestos workers, asbestosis is also seen in people living near asbestos industries. , industry cover-ups, and efforts at regulation. He includes a list of alternatives to asbestos insulation; incriminating in·crim·i·nate tr.v. in·crim·i·nat·ed, in·crim·i·nat·ing, in·crim·i·nates 1. To accuse of a crime or other wrongful act. 2. letters between an asbestos product-producing company president and the company's lawyer (1935); Congressional testimony in 1978; an example of how hard it still was in 1983 to get a health journal to print a letter on the threat of asbestos in drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. ; and a chronology chronology, n the arrangement of events in a time sequence, usually from the beginning to the end of an event. , 1920s-1995, of the questionable relationship between a university research lab and a life insurance company. Access to the newly available archives of an asbestos industry leader updates previous editions, for which dates are not given. |
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