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Title:Medicine, politics and disease on South Africa's gold mines
Author:McCulloch, JockISNI
Year:2013
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies (ISSN 1465-3893)
Volume:39
Issue:3
Pages:543-556
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:gold mining
occupational health
medical history
About person:W. Watkins-Pitchford
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070.2013.818850
Abstract:South Africa's gold mines were the first in the world to compensate silicosis and tuberculosis as occupational diseases. They were also the first to monitor the health of miners entering and leaving the industry. While those procedures were much admired by scientists and regulatory authorities outside South Africa, mine medicine was designed to protect the financial interests of employers rather than the health of labour. This article examines how that system, which became a feature of the mines under minority rule, was established during the 1920s. The article also depicts the contributions of Dr. Wilfred Watkins-Pitchford to mine medicine. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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