Jock Mcculloch
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 118872 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jock Mcculloch |
| PRENOMES | Jock |
| SOBRENOME | Mcculloch |
| ASSINATURA | MCCULLOCH J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | RMIT University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Mining Evidence
From 1916, South Africa gold mines were subject to the world's first comprehensive system of state regulation, medical surveillance and compensation. Within less than a decade they were reputed to have conquered the oldest of the occupational lung diseases, silicosis. Dr A. J. Orenstein, who was the dominant figure in mine medicine, received much of the credit for making the mines safe. The transition to majority rule in 1994 has seen South Afric…
Jessica Van Horssen, A Town Called Asbestos
During 2017 over two million tons of asbestos will be mined in Russia, China, Kazakhstan and elsewhere to feed a still thriving asbestos manufacturing industry in the developing world. In the USA, France, the UK and Italy, hundreds of plaintiffs will enter courts seeking compensation for injuries acquired through working in the industry or using asbestos products. In addition to litigants, the asbestos industry has left behind a number of abandon…
Black Skin, White Coats
Reviewed by: Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry by Matthew M. Heaton Jock McCulloch Matthew M. Heaton. Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry. New African Histories Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. x + 249 pp. $32.95 (978-0-8214-2070-6). The past two decades has seen a rich literature on colonial asylums in K…
Lundy Braun, Breathing Race into the Machine
Anyone with an interest in the history of occupational disease will have come across the spirometer. The instrument was developed in nineteenth-century Britain by John Hutchinson as a tool to measure lung capacity, and was adopted in the twentieth century by pulmonary specialists on both sides of the Atlantic to diagnose and monitor disease. The spirometer had great appeal because it produced data that could be fed into the construction of norms,…
Anthony J. Lanza, Silicosis and the Gauley Bridge 'Nine
Gauley Bridge was the scene of America's biggest industrial disaster, in which hundreds of workers died from silicosis in the aftermath of the drilling in 1930-31 of a hydro-electric tunnel at Hawk's Nest. This article scrutinises for the first time the role of Dr A. J. Lanza (a medical director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company) in hiding the extent of acute silicosis amongst the tunnellers. Lanza and his allies in the medical profession we…
Mine medicine
South Africa's gold mines were the first to compensate for silicosis and tuberculosis as occupational diseases. They were also the first mines to introduce medical surveillance of a workforce. Despite those innovations, both employers and state authorities failed to identify the risk faced by underground workers, and the Rand mines remained among the most dangerous in the world. The reasons for that failure are found in the system of mine medicin…
Medicine, Politics and Disease on South Africa's Gold Mines
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 ho…
Air Hunger
During the twentieth century South Africa's gold mines were the largest and the deepest in the world. Surprisingly, given the racialized labour regimes, the official rates of occupational lung disease were among the world's lowest. South Africa's achievements featured prominently in science and policy debates in Australia, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US. In recognition of South Africa's leadership in workplace reform, i…
Black Soul, White Artifact
Hiding a Pandemic
The gold miners of South Africa have been among the most heavily medicalised of any workforce. As a consequence, for much of the twentieth century, the Chamber of Mines and its members claimed that the mines were safe and miners were relatively free of dust-induced occupational disease. For decades that orthodoxy was repeated in the medical literature. It was also repeated by numerous Commissions of Enquiry. However, epidemiology published since …
Pre-Crime and Counter-Terrorism
This article looks at pre-crime in the context of counter-terrorism. Pre-crime links coercive state actions to suspicion without the need for charge, prosecution or conviction. It also includes measures that expand the remit of the criminal law to include activities or associations that are deemed to precede the substantive offence targeted for prevention. The trend towards anticipating risks as a driving principle in criminal justice was identif…
Counting the Cost
Gold mining has been central to the success of South Africa's economy. That labour intensive industry has relied heavily on migrant workers for its profitability. In the past decade, scientists in Johannesburg and Cape Town have identified a pandemic of the serious occupational disease silicosis among gold miners. Litigation currently before South African courts raises the possibility of a class action by hundred and thousands of miners against t…
Surfacing Up
Defending the indefensible
Miners' Lung
The Mine at Baryulgil
In the period from 1945 until the mid-1970s Australia was a major consumer of asbestos products. Today Australia has one of the world's highest rates of asbestos disease. Local manufacture was dominated by James Hardie Industries which also operated a small chrysotile or white asbestos mine at Baryulgil in northern New South Wales. James Hardie has always claimed that the working and living conditions of its Aboriginal employees were good. Howeve…
The Mine at Wittenoom
Australia and South Africa are the only countries to have mined crocidolite or blue asbestos. Crocidolite was mined at Wittenoom in Western Australia from 1944 until 1966. Although production levels were modest, Wittenoom has become the site of Australia's worst occupational health disaster. The labour regimes in South Africa and Wittenoom were very different and yet the rates of occupational disease were probably similar. The hazards facing mine…
Beating the odds
In March 2003 a small community group, ‘The Concerned People Against Asbestos (CPA)’ based at Prieska in the Northern Cape, won a court case in a foreign country. That case may change the way in which multinational corporations behave in the developing world. Until now the hidden costs of mining in Southern Africa have been paid for by labour. The CPA's victory may also help to end that injustice. It is usual to depict communities like Prieska as…
Dust, Disease and Labour at Havelock Asbestos Mine, Swaziland
The Havelock/Bulembu asbestos mine in Swaziland, which operated from 1939 until 2001, was a major employer and earner of foreign exchange. For most of its life the mine was owned and managed by the British conglomerate Turner & Newall. The miners of Havelock have recently failed in their efforts to bring a legal action in Britain against that company. Asbestos is a hazardous material and the attitude of management, the absence of trade unions or …
Asbestos, lies and the state
Trains, Coal, and Industrial Labour
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Trains, Coal, and Industrial Labour
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Asbestos Blues
Jock McCulloch, Asbestos Blues: labour, capital, physicians and the state in South Africa. Oxford: James Currey (paperback £12.95, ISBN 0 85255 862 7; hard covers £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 863 5); Bloomington: Indiana University Press (paperback US 49.95, ISBN 0 253 34127 2). 2002, 223 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 2
Chrysophiles versus Chrysophobes
In the first half of the twentieth century, asbestos was a controversial mineral because of its association with asbestosis and asbestos-related lung cancer. It has proved no less so since the 1960s, when another asbestos cancer, mesothelioma, was identified. Mesothelioma appeared to be more strongly linked with blue asbestos (crocidolite) than with the other asbestos varieties, brown (amosite) and white (chrysotile). This finding triggered a fie…
The Way from Dusty Death
In July 2002 I visited the now-closed Havelock asbestos mine at Piggs Peak in Swaziland. The mine was operated by the British company Turner & Newall (T&N) from 1939 to 1991. We know from internal company correspondence that during T&N's tenure, conditions at Havelock were such that people who lived at Piggs Peak developed asbestosis, an occupational disease, from environmental exposure. Today the waste dumps from the mine, which encircle the tow…
Pre-Crime and Counter-Terrorism
This article looks at pre-crime in the context of counter-terrorism. Pre-crime links coercive state actions to suspicion without the need for charge, prosecution or conviction. It also includes measures that expand the remit of the criminal law to include activities or associations that are deemed to precede the substantive offence targeted for prevention. The trend towards anticipating risks as a driving principle in criminal justice was identif…
Counting the Cost
Gold mining has been central to the success of South Africa's economy. That labour intensive industry has relied heavily on migrant workers for its profitability. In the past decade, scientists in Johannesburg and Cape Town have identified a pandemic of the serious occupational disease silicosis among gold miners. Litigation currently before South African courts raises the possibility of a class action by hundred and thousands of miners against t…
Asbestos Blues
Jock McCulloch, Asbestos Blues: labour, capital, physicians and the state in South Africa. Oxford: James Currey (paperback £12.95, ISBN 0 85255 862 7; hard covers £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 863 5); Bloomington: Indiana University Press (paperback US 49.95, ISBN 0 253 34127 2). 2002, 223 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 2
Asbestos Blues
From the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s, blue asbestos was mined in South Africa for worldwide use. More recently, it has been identified as one of the most dangerous carcinogens to which humans can be exposed. Yet the asbestos mining industry and the South African government have been slow to respond to the health concerns of miners and to the environmental devastation, which has left vast areas of the Northern Cape permanently hazardous. In Asbesto…
Beating the odds
In March 2003 a small community group, ‘The Concerned People Against Asbestos (CPA)’ based at Prieska in the Northern Cape, won a court case in a foreign country. That case may change the way in which multinational corporations behave in the developing world. Until now the hidden costs of mining in Southern Africa have been paid for by labour. The CPA's victory may also help to end that injustice. It is usual to depict communities like Prieska as…
Anthony J. Lanza, Silicosis and the Gauley Bridge 'Nine
Gauley Bridge was the scene of America's biggest industrial disaster, in which hundreds of workers died from silicosis in the aftermath of the drilling in 1930-31 of a hydro-electric tunnel at Hawk's Nest. This article scrutinises for the first time the role of Dr A. J. Lanza (a medical director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company) in hiding the extent of acute silicosis amongst the tunnellers. Lanza and his allies in the medical profession we…
Mine medicine
South Africa's gold mines were the first to compensate for silicosis and tuberculosis as occupational diseases. They were also the first mines to introduce medical surveillance of a workforce. Despite those innovations, both employers and state authorities failed to identify the risk faced by underground workers, and the Rand mines remained among the most dangerous in the world. The reasons for that failure are found in the system of mine medicin…
Medicine, Politics and Disease on South Africa's Gold Mines
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 ho…
The Mine at Wittenoom
Australia and South Africa are the only countries to have mined crocidolite or blue asbestos. Crocidolite was mined at Wittenoom in Western Australia from 1944 until 1966. Although production levels were modest, Wittenoom has become the site of Australia's worst occupational health disaster. The labour regimes in South Africa and Wittenoom were very different and yet the rates of occupational disease were probably similar. The hazards facing mine…
Dust, Disease and Labour at Havelock Asbestos Mine, Swaziland
The Havelock/Bulembu asbestos mine in Swaziland, which operated from 1939 until 2001, was a major employer and earner of foreign exchange. For most of its life the mine was owned and managed by the British conglomerate Turner & Newall. The miners of Havelock have recently failed in their efforts to bring a legal action in Britain against that company. Asbestos is a hazardous material and the attitude of management, the absence of trade unions or …
The Discovery of Mesothelioma on South Africa's Asbestos Fields
The discovery of the link between asbestos and mesothelioma, one of the major occupational health finds of the twentieth century, is usually attributed to the South African-born pathologist, Chris Wagner. The process of that discovery was more complex than has generally been recognized. Most of Wagner's subjects had no occupational exposure, nor was the link between mesothelioma and asbestos one that Wagner made alone. Evidence that asbestos caus…
Women Mining Asbestos in South Africa, 1893-1980
In the period from 1893 to 1980 the asbestos mines of the north-west Cape and the north-eastern Transvaal were important sources of employment. The methods of extraction were simple; and in many mines until the early 1950s the basic labour unit was the family. Even by South African standards labour conditions for black and Coloured workers were harsh. A mixture of political skills and the isolation of the mines allowed British-owned companies and…
Hiding a Pandemic
The gold miners of South Africa have been among the most heavily medicalised of any workforce. As a consequence, for much of the twentieth century, the Chamber of Mines and its members claimed that the mines were safe and miners were relatively free of dust-induced occupational disease. For decades that orthodoxy was repeated in the medical literature. It was also repeated by numerous Commissions of Enquiry. However, epidemiology published since …
The Mine at Baryulgil
In the period from 1945 until the mid-1970s Australia was a major consumer of asbestos products. Today Australia has one of the world's highest rates of asbestos disease. Local manufacture was dominated by James Hardie Industries which also operated a small chrysotile or white asbestos mine at Baryulgil in northern New South Wales. James Hardie has always claimed that the working and living conditions of its Aboriginal employees were good. Howeve…
Asbestos, lies and the state
Asbestos Mining and Occupational Disease in Southern Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, 1915-98
Asbestos has been mined in Zimbabwe since 1915 with the British company Turner & Newall (T&N) dominating the industry for most of its history. From 1930 T&N was subject to health‐and‐safety regulations in its British factories but chose not to apply such measures to reduce the risks to its African workforce. Conditions on the mines were hazardous and many workers were injured in accidents or suffered from asbestos‐related disease. The arena of oc…
Colonial Psychiatry and `the African Mind
The empire's new clothes
Black Soul White Artifact
Amílcar Cabral
The speeches and articles of Amílcar Cabral represent an attempt to think of imperialism and the colonial relationship in a new way. His published works sought to explain how a subsistence agricultural society was being transformed under the abnormal conditions attendant upon colonial domination. Superficially, Cabral does not present any new or particularly complex interpretation of colonialism. With the exception of a few rather brief essays, m…
Amílcar Cabral
The speeches and articles of Amílcar Cabral represent an attempt to think of imperialism and the colonial relationship in a new way. His published works sought to explain how a subsistence agricultural society was being transformed under the abnormal conditions attendant upon colonial domination. Superficially, Cabral does not present any new or particularly complex interpretation of colonialism. With the exception of a few rather brief essays, m…
Black soul white artifact
Black Soul White Artifact
In the Twilight of Revolution
Asbestos
The empire's new clothes
Colonial Psychiatry and the African Mind
In this history of the practice and theoretical underpinnings of colonial psychiatry in Africa, Jock McCulloch describes the clinical approaches of well-known European psychiatrists who worked directly with indigenous Africans, among them Frantz Fanon, J. C. Carothers and Wulf Sachs. They were a disparate group, operating independently of one another, and mostly in intellectual isolation. But despite their differences, they shared a coherent set …
"Colonial psychiatry and "the African mind
In this first history of the practice and the theoretical underpinnings of colonial psychiatry in Africa, Jock McCulloch describes the clinical approaches of well-known European psychiatrists who worked with indigenous Africans, among them Frantz Fanon, J. C. Carothers and Wulf Sachs. They were a disparate group, operating independently of one another, and mostly in intellectual isolation. But despite their differences, they shared a coherent set…
Colonial Psychiatry and `the African Mind
Responses to Raymond Prince's 'John Colin D. Carothers (1903-1989) and African Colonial Psychiatry' [TPRR, 33(2)
"Colonial Psychiatry and "The African Mind
Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe
The Mind of Black Africa
Black Peril, White Virtue
Black Peril: the crimes violence and justice legislating virtue explaining Black Peril white women domestic labour black women syphilis coloureds, poor whites and boundaries
Asbestos Blues
Black Peril, White Virtue
The Way from Dusty Death
In July 2002 I visited the now-closed Havelock asbestos mine at Piggs Peak in Swaziland. The mine was operated by the British company Turner & Newall (T&N) from 1939 to 1991. We know from internal company correspondence that during T&N's tenure, conditions at Havelock were such that people who lived at Piggs Peak developed asbestosis, an occupational disease, from environmental exposure. Today the waste dumps from the mine, which encircle the tow…
The Discovery of Mesothelioma on South Africa's Asbestos Fields
The discovery of the link between asbestos and mesothelioma, one of the major occupational health finds of the twentieth century, is usually attributed to the South African-born pathologist, Chris Wagner. The process of that discovery was more complex than has generally been recognized. Most of Wagner's subjects had no occupational exposure, nor was the link between mesothelioma and asbestos one that Wagner made alone. Evidence that asbestos caus…
Women Mining Asbestos in South Africa, 1893-1980
In the period from 1893 to 1980 the asbestos mines of the north-west Cape and the north-eastern Transvaal were important sources of employment. The methods of extraction were simple; and in many mines until the early 1950s the basic labour unit was the family. Even by South African standards labour conditions for black and Coloured workers were harsh. A mixture of political skills and the isolation of the mines allowed British-owned companies and…
Asbestos Mining and Occupational Disease in Southern Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, 1915-98
Asbestos has been mined in Zimbabwe since 1915 with the British company Turner & Newall (T&N) dominating the industry for most of its history. From 1930 T&N was subject to health‐and‐safety regulations in its British factories but chose not to apply such measures to reduce the risks to its African workforce. Conditions on the mines were hazardous and many workers were injured in accidents or suffered from asbestos‐related disease. The arena of oc…
Asbestos Blues
From the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s, blue asbestos was mined in South Africa for worldwide use. More recently, it has been identified as one of the most dangerous carcinogens to which humans can be exposed. Yet the asbestos mining industry and the South African government have been slow to respond to the health concerns of miners and to the environmental devastation, which has left vast areas of the Northern Cape permanently hazardous. In Asbesto…
Trains, Coal, and Industrial Labour
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Trains, Coal, and Industrial Labour
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Asbestos Blues
Jock McCulloch, Asbestos Blues: labour, capital, physicians and the state in South Africa. Oxford: James Currey (paperback £12.95, ISBN 0 85255 862 7; hard covers £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 863 5); Bloomington: Indiana University Press (paperback US 49.95, ISBN 0 253 34127 2). 2002, 223 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 2
Chrysophiles versus Chrysophobes
In the first half of the twentieth century, asbestos was a controversial mineral because of its association with asbestosis and asbestos-related lung cancer. It has proved no less so since the 1960s, when another asbestos cancer, mesothelioma, was identified. Mesothelioma appeared to be more strongly linked with blue asbestos (crocidolite) than with the other asbestos varieties, brown (amosite) and white (chrysotile). This finding triggered a fie…
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