Black Lung

The plot line is a familiar one in the history of science--particularly of biomedicine, where beliefs about etiology, pathology, and diagnosis may have practical implications for prevention, treatment, or compensation. First, practitioners (and even patients) make a judgment rooted in case experience. Later, that initial empirical assessment is subjected to greater scientific scrutiny and proved to be inaccurate. Finally, as new research techniques--clinical, laboratory-based, or epidemiological--come into use, they vindicate something close to the original judgment

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