TY - JOUR
AU - Adderley, W. Paul
AB - SummaryThe study examines historic occupational lead poisoning (occupational plumbism) amongst the mining labour force at Tyndrum lead mine in the Scottish southern highlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries set against the backdrop of the wider national context. Traditional archival research is combined with environmental science to both identify incidence of poisoning and the historic health risk factors that were specific to the industry, particularly at the surface of the mine. Emphasis is placed upon employment practices, technology and wider social conditions such as diet and alcohol and the toxicity of the different compounds of lead (mineralogy) that the workers were exposed too.
TI - Occupational Exposure to Heavy Metals Poisoning: Scottish Lead Mining
JO - Social History of Medicine
DO - 10.1093/shm/hkw084
DA - 2017-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/occupational-exposure-to-heavy-metals-poisoning-scottish-lead-mining-P0tr0ZMGCk
SP - 520
EP - 543
VL - 30
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -