Beris Penrose
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beris Penrose |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beris |
| FAMILY NAME | Penrose |
| SIGNATURE | PENROSE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
"Re-Emergence" of Silicosis and Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis in Australia
Some reporters, politicians, and doctors have described current cases as a "re-emergence" of these diseases, based on the notion that they had been eliminated. However, silicosis persisted in centuries-old industries like sandblasting and stonemasonry and coal workers pneumoconiosis (CWP) continued in coal mining. Until recently, their presence was obscured by a combination of factors such as misdiagnosis, especially if there was a history of smo…
The State and Gold Miners' Health in Victoria, 1870-1910
This article analyses why Australia's first epidemic of silicosis developed, notwithstanding the accumulating medical and lay knowledge that the disease was caused by dust from rock drills and poorly ventilated mines. Previously unexamined sources show that at key points, where the potential existed to minimise its progress and impact, public policy failed. Instead of containing or mediating the disease, legislative choices fostered its unconstra…
Dust, contractors, politics and silicosis
In 1909-10 the Queensland Parliamentary Labor Party was engaged in rebuilding its strength from the opposition benches after a damaging split with its former leader, William Kidston, who continued as Premier in alliance with more conservative politicians. Reflecting the concerns of hard-rock miners, it campaigned to ameliorate the occupational disease silicosis (miners' phthisis). In December 1910 a Royal Commission was appointed to enquire into …
Medical Monitoring and Silicosis in Metal Miners
During the first half of the twentieth century the world's experts in silicosis embraced the notion of health screening and strict medical surveillance of metal miners as a method of preventing the occupational lung disease silicosis. The promotion of medical monitoring represented a turning point in the profession's approach. Likewise, the formulation of the clinical stages of silicosis based on workers ‘productive capacity represented a definin…
Occupational Lead Poisoning in Battery Workers
Labour historians are now beginning to explore the history of occupational health and safety and its impact on workers and the community. An examination of past approaches to protecting workers’ health can inform current debates over such things as the relevance of the Precautionary Principle advocated by those who seek to remove from the workplace substances suspected of being harmful. In the United States from the 1920s-60s the employer body, t…
Medical Experts and Occupational Illness
During an epidemic of Weils disease amongst north Queensland cane cutters in the 1930s medical debates over whether it was contracted in the fields; how the disease should be controlled; whether clinical diagnosis alone was sufficient; and whether there were long term effects from it were not value free. Rather, they were influenced by wider social, political and economic concerns of the time. Dr Raphael diento, Director General of Health and Med…
Occupational Lead Poisoning at Mount Isa Mines in the 1930s
From 1931, numerous workers at Mount Isa Mines began to contract occupational lead poisoning, primarily because the newly-installed smelter equipment had no mechanism for removing lead dust and fum
Herbert Moxon, a Victim of the 'Bolshevisation' of the Communist Party
Much has been written about the factional dispute within the Communist Party of Australia [CPA] during 1928-1929 which culminated in the removal of Jack Kavanagh and his supporters from positions of authority, and the installation of a new leadership under Herbert Moxon, Lance Sharkey and later J.B. Miles.1 However, much less has been written about the crucial first two years of Moxon and Sharkey's control of the CPA even though these years repre…
Dust, contractors, politics and silicosis
In 1909-10 the Queensland Parliamentary Labor Party was engaged in rebuilding its strength from the opposition benches after a damaging split with its former leader, William Kidston, who continued as Premier in alliance with more conservative politicians. Reflecting the concerns of hard-rock miners, it campaigned to ameliorate the occupational disease silicosis (miners' phthisis). In December 1910 a Royal Commission was appointed to enquire into …
Medical Monitoring and Silicosis in Metal Miners
During the first half of the twentieth century the world's experts in silicosis embraced the notion of health screening and strict medical surveillance of metal miners as a method of preventing the occupational lung disease silicosis. The promotion of medical monitoring represented a turning point in the profession's approach. Likewise, the formulation of the clinical stages of silicosis based on workers ‘productive capacity represented a definin…
Medical Experts and Occupational Illness
During an epidemic of Weils disease amongst north Queensland cane cutters in the 1930s medical debates over whether it was contracted in the fields; how the disease should be controlled; whether clinical diagnosis alone was sufficient; and whether there were long term effects from it were not value free. Rather, they were influenced by wider social, political and economic concerns of the time. Dr Raphael diento, Director General of Health and Med…
Herbert Moxon, a Victim of the 'Bolshevisation' of the Communist Party
Much has been written about the factional dispute within the Communist Party of Australia [CPA] during 1928-1929 which culminated in the removal of Jack Kavanagh and his supporters from positions of authority, and the installation of a new leadership under Herbert Moxon, Lance Sharkey and later J.B. Miles.1 However, much less has been written about the crucial first two years of Moxon and Sharkey's control of the CPA even though these years repre…
Occupational Lead Poisoning at Mount Isa Mines in the 1930s
From 1931, numerous workers at Mount Isa Mines began to contract occupational lead poisoning, primarily because the newly-installed smelter equipment had no mechanism for removing lead dust and fum
Medical Experts and Occupational Illness
During an epidemic of Weils disease amongst north Queensland cane cutters in the 1930s medical debates over whether it was contracted in the fields; how the disease should be controlled; whether clinical diagnosis alone was sufficient; and whether there were long term effects from it were not value free. Rather, they were influenced by wider social, political and economic concerns of the time. Dr Raphael diento, Director General of Health and Med…
Occupational Lead Poisoning in Battery Workers
Labour historians are now beginning to explore the history of occupational health and safety and its impact on workers and the community. An examination of past approaches to protecting workers’ health can inform current debates over such things as the relevance of the Precautionary Principle advocated by those who seek to remove from the workplace substances suspected of being harmful. In the United States from the 1920s-60s the employer body, t…
Medical Monitoring and Silicosis in Metal Miners
During the first half of the twentieth century the world's experts in silicosis embraced the notion of health screening and strict medical surveillance of metal miners as a method of preventing the occupational lung disease silicosis. The promotion of medical monitoring represented a turning point in the profession's approach. Likewise, the formulation of the clinical stages of silicosis based on workers ‘productive capacity represented a definin…
Dust, contractors, politics and silicosis
In 1909-10 the Queensland Parliamentary Labor Party was engaged in rebuilding its strength from the opposition benches after a damaging split with its former leader, William Kidston, who continued as Premier in alliance with more conservative politicians. Reflecting the concerns of hard-rock miners, it campaigned to ameliorate the occupational disease silicosis (miners' phthisis). In December 1910 a Royal Commission was appointed to enquire into …
The State and Gold Miners' Health in Victoria, 1870-1910
This article analyses why Australia's first epidemic of silicosis developed, notwithstanding the accumulating medical and lay knowledge that the disease was caused by dust from rock drills and poorly ventilated mines. Previously unexamined sources show that at key points, where the potential existed to minimise its progress and impact, public policy failed. Instead of containing or mediating the disease, legislative choices fostered its unconstra…
"Re-Emergence" of Silicosis and Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis in Australia
Some reporters, politicians, and doctors have described current cases as a "re-emergence" of these diseases, based on the notion that they had been eliminated. However, silicosis persisted in centuries-old industries like sandblasting and stonemasonry and coal workers pneumoconiosis (CWP) continued in coal mining. Until recently, their presence was obscured by a combination of factors such as misdiagnosis, especially if there was a history of smo…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Silicosis (4 works) · Australian History and Society (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)