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Author(s) -
Jacobsen Jonny
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2018.01189.x
Subject(s) - coal , law , political science , landmark , lung disease , medicine , history , lung , geography , archaeology , cartography
When sick miners sued Britain's National Coal Board in the 1990s, they did so on the basis of research that linked coal dust exposure to lung disease. But that research was soon under attack in court. Jonny Jacobsen reports on his father's role justifying decades of work on coal miners’ lung disease during landmark litigation