TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Coal Workers' Lung Diseases
A1  - Wagner, Gregory R.
A1  - Attfield, Michael D.
A2  - Wallace, Robert B.
Y1  - 2017
N1  - 
T2  - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e
AB  - Lung  disease  among  underground  coal  miners  has  been  a  recognized  occupational  hazard  since  at  least  the  mid-seventeenth  century.  Miners'  black  lung,  now  called  coal  workers'  pneumoconiosis  (CWP)  was  first  documented  among  Scottish  coal  miners  in  1837.1  Although  the  disease  was  thought  to  be  disappearing  in  Britain  at  the  turn  of  this  century,  wider  use  of  chest  radiographs  following  World  War  I  showed  pneumoconiosis,  similar  to  silicosis,  among  coal  miners  in  South  Wales.  By  1934,  British  physicians  were  beginning  to  accept  coal  dust  as  an  occupational  exposure  that  could  result  in  disability  and  death.  In  1942,  the  Committee  on  Industrial  Pulmonary  Diseases  of  the  Medical  Research  Council  introduced  the  term  “coal  workers'  pneumoconiosis.”2,3  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Medical
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141968907
ER  -