Dr. Goldwater Recalls his Testimony at the 1936 Gauley Bridge Disaster Congressional Hearings скачать в хорошем качестве

Dr. Goldwater Recalls his Testimony at the 1936 Gauley Bridge Disaster Congressional Hearings

Dr. Goldwater recalls his testimony before the House Committee on Labor , Investigation Relating to Health Conditions of Workers Employed in the Construction and Maintenance of Public Utilities,74th Cong. 1st sess., (Jan. 16, 1936). This hearing investigated the Hawk's Nest silicosis tragedy near the town of Gauley Bridge West Virginia. During the 1930s, hundreds of workers, from a tunnel construction project near the town of Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, died from silicosis, a lung disease caused by exposure to silica dust. The employer did not use methods known at the time to control the deadly dust. For the full story, read Martin Cherniack's book, The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Muriel Rukeyser an American poet and political activist, she wrote a group of poems entitled The Book of the Dead (1938), documenting the details of the Gauley Bridge silicosis disaster. She includes Dr. Goldwater's expert witness testimony in later lawsuits against Union Carbide in her poem, "The Doctors." Dr. Leonard J. Goldwater's career spanned 60 years. He specialized in occupational medicine during the 1930's and 1940's, first with the New York State Department of Labor and then the United States Navy. After World War II he became a professor of industrial hygiene at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1970 he joined the Duke University Medical Center, where he organized the medical school's occupational medicine program. He retired from Duke in the mid-1970's. This is clipped from an hour long informal oral history recorded in 1981 at the University of North Carolina. Thanks to Professor Carol Rice, Ph.D., CIH, at the University of Cincinnati's Department of Environmental Health for providing this wonderful oral history material.