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Occupational hazards: Multidisciplinarity to make ‘preventability’ happen

Cavalin, Catherine; Lescoat, Alain; Menéndez-Navarro, Alfredo; Rosental, Paul-André (2020), Occupational hazards: Multidisciplinarity to make ‘preventability’ happen, Respirology, 25, 2, p. 223. 10.1111/resp.13752

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Date
2020
Journal name
Respirology
Volume
25
Number
2
Publisher
Wiley
Pages
223
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Author(s)
Cavalin, Catherine
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales [IRISSO]
Lescoat, Alain
Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail [Irset]
Menéndez-Navarro, Alfredo
History of Science Department
Rosental, Paul-André
Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée [CEE]
Abstract (EN)
We read with great interest Blanc's editorial entitled ‘What has been done will be done again’.1 It presents the ‘seemingly perpetual problem of silicosis’. In other words, occupational health hazards entailed by exposure to crystalline silica (e.g. silicosis, autoimmune diseases and pulmonary alveolar proteinosis) have been repeatedly (re)discovered and (seemingly?) forgotten, making the struggle against silicosis a Sisyphean task, despite knowledge on silicosis and its ‘preventable’ character. To understand such a paradox, Blanc urges us to pay attention to the historical context.We willingly concur with this suggestion and would like to add three more reasons to do so, with the final aim of questioning the very notion of ‘preventability’ of diseases in occupational settings.
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prevention