Pain and Prejudice (Paperback)

In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn't help. Neither the refinery company nor the scientific community was interested in the scary results of her chromosome studies. Over the next decades Messing encountered many more cases of workers around the world-factory workers, cleaners, checkout clerks, bank tellers, food servers, nurses, teachers-suffering and in pain without any help from the very scientists and occupational health experts whose work was supposed to make their lives easier. Arguing that rules for scientific practice can make it hard to see what really makes workers sick, in Pain and Prejudice Messing tells the story of how she went from looking at test tubes to listening to workers.

General

Imprint:	Between the Lines
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	August 2014
Authors:	Karen Messing
Dimensions:	201 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-1-77113-147-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Occupational / industrial health & safety Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Environmental medicine > Occupational medicine Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Industrial relations > General Promotions
LSN:	1-77113-147-0
Barcode:	9781771131476

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