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oapen-20.500.12657-624412024-03-28T08:18:50Z Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance McCulloch, Jock Miller, Pavla Goldmining Occupational lung disease Silicosis Tuberculosis Southern Africa Occupational injury African studies Colonialism Racism History of mining Epidemiology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKV Environmental medicine::MKVP Occupational medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the world’s largest producer of gold. Although the country enjoyed a reputation for leading the world in occupational health legislation, the mining companies developed a system of medical surveillance and workers’ compensation which compromised the health of black gold miners, facilitated the spread of tuberculosis, and ravaged the communities and economies of labour-sending states. The culmination of two decades of meticulous archival research, this book exposes the making, contesting, and unravelling of the companies’ capacity to shape – and corrupt – medical knowledge. 2023-04-13T14:05:24Z 2023-04-13T14:05:24Z 2023 book ONIX_20230413_9789811983276_53 9789811983276 9789811983269 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62441 eng application/pdf n/a 978-981-19-8327-6.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-981-19-8327-6 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-981-19-8327-6 10.1007/978-981-19-8327-6 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 29f6d3c7-230a-49b8-8b09-6ccece134b60 9789811983276 9789811983269 Palgrave Macmillan 459 Singapore [...] RMIT University Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology open access
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This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the world’s largest producer of gold. Although the country enjoyed a reputation for leading the world in occupational health legislation, the mining companies developed a system of medical surveillance and workers’ compensation which compromised the health of black gold miners, facilitated the spread of tuberculosis, and ravaged the communities and economies of labour-sending states. The culmination of two decades of meticulous archival research, this book exposes the making, contesting, and unravelling of the companies’ capacity to shape – and corrupt – medical knowledge.
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