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Turning Men Into Stone - A social and medical history of silicosis in Western Australia 1890-1970 by Criena Fitzgerald


Turning Men Into Stone - A social and medical history of silicosis in Western Australia 1890-1970, 1960, WA physician Dr Bob Elphick remarked to his colleagues that the mining industry was turning men into stone. This evocative image aptly described the end-stage pathophysiological changes that occurred in the lungs of the state's goldminers after exposure to silica dust. Until 1926 in WA, when X-ray technology became readily available and financially viable, diagnosis of dust disease in miners was fraught, flawed and at best an educated medical guess. ISBN 978 0 85905 635 9

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