Science in the service of occupational health: the case of the Commission for "miner´s disease of Jáchymov" in the inter-war Czechoslovakia
2009
Abstract
Scientific research of the "miner´s disease of Jáchymov"; this is how the increased incidence of lung carcinoma in miners employed in uranium mines as well as workers of the uranium dye and radium factory in Jáchymov was called. This historical case epitomizes the problems connected with the research, definition and control of one particular occupational disease, conmbined with elaborate complex of political and social relations in the inter-war Czechoslovakia.
The contribution to promotion of progressive tendencies not only in labour legislation but in public health in general is noticed.