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...PAUL BRODEUR 274 pages. Viking...
...best tradition of the early muckrakers, both Paul Brodeur and Rachel Scott movingly demonstrate their concern. Scott, 27, studies what she calls "industrial slaughter in America." Brodeur, 43, analyzes in extraordinary detail the "delayed carnage" of disease-inducing chemicals and fiber-laden air that exist in all too many of today's factories. The pair worked separately (Scott full time for three years, Brodeur intermittently for six) but often on the same scandalous health conditions. The tone of their writing is largely nonpolemical and convincing. They name the offending corporations, pin down the evasions of company doctors, reveal...
Tragic Numbers. Brodeur's work, an expansion of a series of articles for The New Yorker, focuses primarily on the dangers of asbestos fibers, which have long been inhaled in unsafe quantities by workers using this insulating and fire-resistant material. Despite years of warnings by independent medical researchers-and the persistent denial of danger by industry-paid health experts-the destructiveness of asbestos has been established beyond doubt. The fibers cling to the linings of the lungs, scar those organs, and induce asbestosis, a progressive and irreversible disease...
...Brodeur relates how officials of the Pittsburgh Corning Corp. were finally pressured by a few concerned Government inspectors and union leaders to do something about the excessive amount of fiber detected in air samples taken as early as 1967 at their dusty asbestos plant in Tyler, Texas. But not before the damning results of the tests were filed away for four years by complacent higher Government officials. The plant was eventually closed rather than meet higher health standards. The workers were never warned that the fiber concentration far exceeded the unsafe standards then in effect or even that asbestos...
Other pediatricians apparently agree. Photos of Brodeur's decorations have been requested by dozens of hospitals from Canada to Australia, and several of his colleagues are getting Snoopy smocks of their...