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Messing, Karen.
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Radiation -- Toxicology.
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Women scientists -- Canada -- Biography.
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Messing, Karen.
Industrial hygiene.
Industrial safety.
Hazardous substances.
Radiation -- Toxicology.
Radiation -- Health aspects.
Women scientists -- Canada -- Biography.
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Pain and prejudice : what science can learn about work from the people who do it / Karen Messing.
by
Messing, Karen.
Between the lines, 2014.
Call #:
613.62 M585p
Subjects
Industrial hygiene.
Industrial safety.
Hazardous substances.
Radiation
--
Toxicology
.
Radiation
--
Health aspects.
Women scientists
--
Canada
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9781771131476 (pbk.)
1771131470 (pbk.)
Description:
x, 155 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In 1978, when workers at a phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, a professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the
radiation
was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn't help. Neither the refinery company nor the scientific community was interested in the scary results of her chromosome studies. Over the next decades Messing encountered many more cases of workers around the world-factory workers, cleaners, checkout clerks, bank tellers, food servers, nurses, teachers-suffering and in pain without any help from the very scientists and occupational health experts whose work was supposed to make their lives easier. Arguing that rules for scientific practice can make it hard to see what really makes workers sick, Messing tells the story of how she went from looking at test tubes to listening to workers. Karen Messing is an expert on occupational health. She is the author of the book One-eyed Science: Occupational Health and Working Women."--Provided by publisher.
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Memoirs.
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