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Asbestos and Fire - Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk (Paperback, First Paperback Edition)
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Asbestos and Fire - Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk (Paperback, First Paperback Edition)
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For much of the industrial era, asbestos was a widely acclaimed
benchmark material. During its heyday, it was manufactured into
nearly three thousand different products, most of which protected
life and property from heat, flame, and electricity. It was used in
virtually every industry from hotel keeping to military technology
to chemical manufacturing, and was integral to building
construction from shacks to skyscrapers in every community across
the United States. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, this once
popular mineral began a rapid fall from grace as growing attention
to the serious health risks associated with it began to overshadow
the protections and benefits it provided.
In this thought-provoking and controversial book, Rachel Maines
challenges the recent vilification of asbestos by providing a
historical perspective on Americans' changing perceptions about
risk. She suggests that the very success of asbestos and other
fire-prevention technologies in containing deadly blazes has led to
a sort of historical amnesia about the very risks they were
supposed to reduce.
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Asbestos and Fire" is not only the most thoroughly researched and
balanced look at the history of asbestos, it is also an important
contribution to a larger debate that considers how the risks of
technological solutions should be evaluated. As technology offers
us ever-increasing opportunities to protect and prevent, Maines
urges that learning to accept and effectively address the
unintended consequences of technological innovations is a growing
part of our collective responsibility.
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