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Occupation, Environment, and Health: A History of Interdependence

Occupation, Environment, and Health: A History of Interdependence. Chris Sellers, M.D., Ph.D. History Department Stony Brook University Conference, ICOH History June 20, 2010 . The Gulf Disaster as Prism. New York Times First coverage: April 22, 2010, A23

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Occupation, Environment, and Health: A History of Interdependence

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  1. Occupation, Environment, and Health: A History of Interdependence Chris Sellers, M.D., Ph.D. History Department Stony Brook University Conference, ICOH History June 20, 2010

  2. The Gulf Disaster as Prism • New York Times • First coverage: April 22, 2010, A23 • “11 Remain Missing After Oil Rig Explodes Off Louisiana; 17 Are Hurt” • First front-page coverage: May 7, 2010 • “'We All Were Sure We Were Going to Die‘” • But by this time, 22 other articles centered on spill itself • Chicago Tribune • First front-page coverage: May 18, 2010 • “Chicago firm helping BP with tide of spill suits” • Washington Post • First front-page coverage: April 30, 2010 • “Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Reaches Louisiana Coast”

  3. WWI Nitrating Plant • From Alice Hamilton, Exploring the Dangerous Trades, 1943

  4. The “Industrial Hazard Regime” • Social and political: those social arrangements, formal as well as informal, by which public bodies, private interests, and civic mobilizations define and handle the risk and damage associated with an industry • Material and spatial: Encompasses the variety of physical or material realms in which an industry might have posed hazards • Inside workplaces: occupational hazards • Outside workplaces: industrial pollution • Via stores or markets: consumer hazards

  5. “…..When you come to a patient’s house, you should ask him what sort of pains he has, what caused them, how many days he has been ill, whether the bowels are working and what sort of food he eats. So says Hippocrates in his work affections. I may venture to add one more question: what occupation does he follow?”

  6. Headlines of Hamilton’s Time

  7. United States Texas Mexico Texas Map, 1900 Lead Smelter Established by Phelps Dodge In El Paso, Texas, 1887

  8. Limits to Occupation Disease Coverage, 1936

  9. El Paso Herald-Post, July 15, 1937 But here, Visible Smoke

  10. The Visibility of PostWWII“Smog or “Smurst”

  11. El Paso County, Texas, in 1970

  12. One Solution: Raising the Stack… From 400 to 640 ft. in 1950… To 750 ft. in 1954… To 828 ft. in 1966…

  13. The New Face of Pollution in El Paso: Studies of the Landrigan team (published 1975)

  14. Protest in 2007 to Prevent Reopening of ASARCO Plant

  15. Peñoles Lead Smelter, Torreon, 1998

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