The cotton dust papers : science, politics, and power in the "discovery" of byssinosis in the U.S. / by Charles Levenstein and Gregory F. DeLaurier, with Mary Lee Dunn.

Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., [2002], ©2002.

xi, 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

By any other name: brown lung and the social recognition of disease -- "Kiss of death": banning the suction shuttle in Massachusetts -- textiles move South, 1920-1940 -- Cotton colic -- The Harvard Cotton Dust Project -- "We were running from it, really": workers' compensation and byssinosis, 1950-1968 -- Georgia and the "mysterious disease" of byssinosis -- Bouhuys' disease -- Brown lung and the dilemmas of a novice investigator, 1968-1969 -- Full circle: "Burlington's disease" -- Brown lung and the lessons for occupational health and saftey.