Industry, Tuberculosis, Silicosis and Compensation: A Symposium (1945)

A 1945 symposium prepared by the Committee on Tuberculosis in Industry of the National Tuberculosis Association and the American Trudeau Society and edited by Leroy U. Gardner of the Saranac Laboratory. Written for physicians and administrators, its papers by Gardner, A. J. Lanza, Paul Bamberger, Leopold Brahdy, George W. Wright and others cover tuberculosis control in industry, mass chest X-rays, the pneumoconioses with emphasis on silicosis (with a passage on asbestosis), management of the silicotic patient, and workmen's compensation for occupational lung disease, including partial disability from silicosis and the financial liabilities of occupational disease.