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Farewell, king coal!
- Source :
- Thorax. 71:364-366
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2016.
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Abstract
- Coal mining provided the power for the industrial development of the West, at great cost to the health of the workforce and, from industrial pollution, of the population. Medical appreciation of the diseases of miners was slow to develop and has been marked by controversy relating to the roles of coal and quartz and the causation of emphysema. Research by the MRC and the British coal industry resolved these issues as the industry itself declined. However, from the research has come an understanding of the influence of inhalation of different inhaled pollutants on human health that has been applied to predicting and preventing possible hazards of developing nanotechnologies.
- Subjects :
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Natural resource economics
Pulmonary emphysema
Silicosis
Population
Industrial pollution
complex mixtures
Silicotuberculosis
03 medical and health sciences
Human health
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
Occupational Exposure
Prevalence
Humans
Medicine
Coal
030212 general & internal medicine
Causation
education
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Coal mining
Dust
Quartz
respiratory system
Coal Mining
United Kingdom
respiratory tract diseases
Occupational Diseases
Pulmonary Emphysema
030228 respiratory system
Workforce
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14683296 and 00406376
- Volume :
- 71
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Thorax
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b9e7a4853670300e2b962dac990bd3af