Mine medicine: knowledge and power on South Africa's gold mines

REFERENCES

• AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa. The Mining Sector: Tuberculosis and Migrant Labour in Southern Africa. Johannesburg: AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa, July 2008.
   Google Scholar
• Department of Minerals and Energy Affairs. Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Safety and Health in the Mining Industry. Pretoria: Department of Minerals and Energy Affairs1995.
   Google Scholar
• “Discussion of Tuberculosis”. Proceedings of the Transvaal Mine Medical Officers' Association 5, no. 7(January 26, 1926): 1–8.
   Google Scholar
• Donsky, Isidore. “A History of Silicosis on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines, 1910–1946.” PhD diss., Rand Afrikaans University, 1993.
   Google Scholar
• “Dr. P. Miller: President's Address.” Proceedings of the Transvaal Mine Medical Officers' Association, XVIII, no. 206 (April 1939): 147.
   Google Scholar
• Frew, A. “A Standard of Fitness for Natives on Mines.” Proceedings of the Transvaal Mine Medical Officers' Association1, no. 8 (1921): 4–6.
   Google Scholar
• Government Printer Cape Town. Report of a Commission into Miners Phthisis and Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Cape Town: Government Printer, 1912.
   Google Scholar
• Government Printer Cape Town. Report of the Native Grievances Inquiry 1913–1914. Cape Town: Government Printer, 1914.
   Google Scholar
• Government Printer Pretoria. Miners' Phthisis Acts Consolidation Act No. 35 of 1925. Pretoria: Government Printer, 1925.
   Google Scholar
• Government Printer Pretoria. Report of the Miners' Phthisis Medical Bureau for the Twelve Months Ending July 31, 1924. Pretoria: Government Printer, 1925.
   Google Scholar
• Government Printer Pretoria. “Table 1 Incidence of Silicosis and Tuberculosis.” The Prevention of Silicosis on the Mines of the Witwatersrand, 1937.
   Google Scholar
• Government Printer Pretoria. Report of the Silicosis Medical Bureau for the Year Ended 31st March 1949. Pretoria: Government Printer, 1950.
   Google Scholar
• Government Printer Wellington, New Zealand. Report of Interdepartmental Committee on Silicosis, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin No. 57. Wellington: Government Printer, 1938.
   Google Scholar
• ILO (International Labour Office). Workmen's Compensation for Silicosis in the Union of South Africa, Great Britain and Germany: Studies and Reports. Series F (Industrial Hygiene) No. 16. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1937.
   Google Scholar
• ILO. Silicosis: Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Geneva 29 August to 9 September 1938. London: International Labour Office, 1938.
   Google Scholar
• Irvine, L. G., A. Mavrogordato, and H. Pirow. “A Review of the History of Silicosis on the Witwatersrand Goldfields.” Silicosis: Records of the International Conference, Johannesburg 13–27 August, International Labour Office, London, 1930.
   Google Scholar
• Katz, Elaine. The White Death: Silicosis on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines 1886–1910. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994.
   Google Scholar
• Louw, J. A. “The Miniature Chest Radiograph: Its Uses, Value and Problems.” Proceedings of the Mine Medical Officers' Association XLV, no. 392 (October–December 1965): 80–85.
   Google Scholar
• Martiny, Oluf. “My Medical Career.” Unpublished manuscript, Johannesburg, November 1995–September 1999.
   Google Scholar
• McCulloch, Jock. “Counting the Cost: Gold Mining and Occupational Disease in Contemporary South Africa.” African Affairs108, no. 431 (2009): 221–240.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCulloch, Jock. “Hiding a Pandemic: Dr. G.W.H. Schepers and the Politics of Silicosis in South Africa.” The Journal of Southern African Studies35, no. 4 (December 2009): 835–848.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McDavid, W. G. “This is the Mine Medical Officers Daily Round.” In Doctors of the Mines: A History of the Work of Mine Medical Officers, edited by A. P.Cartwright, 91–94. Cape Town: Purnell and Sons, 1971.
   Google Scholar
• McIvor, Arthur, and RonaldJohnston. Miners Lung: A History of Dust Diseases in British Coal Mining. London: Ashgate, 2007.
   Google Scholar
• “Miners' Phthisis Act No. 35 (1925) Condensed Précis of Regulations and Procedure (Natives and Non-Europeans) for Mine Medical Officers.” Proceedings of the Transvaal Mine Medical Officers' Association, 6, no. 4(October 1925): 4–5.
   Google Scholar
• Morrison, Sue. The Silicosis Experience in Scotland: Causality, Recognition and the Impact of Legislation During the Twentieth Century. Saarbrucken: Lambert, 2010.
   Google Scholar
• Murray, Jill. “Development of Radiological and Autopsy Silicosis in a Cohort of Gold Miners Followed up into Retirement.” Paper presented at the Research Forum, National Institute for Occupational Health, JohannesburgMay 26, 2005.
   Google Scholar
• Murray, Jill, TonyDavies, and DavidRees. “Occupational Lung Disease in the South African Mining Industry: Research and Policy Implementation.” Journal of Public Health Reports32 (2011): 65–79.
   Google Scholar
• Nugent, Angela. “Fit for Work: The Introduction of Physical Examinations in Industry.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine57 (1983): 578–595.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Penrose, Beris. “Medical Monitoring and Silicosis in Metal Miners, 1910–1940.” Labour History Review69, no. 3 (2004): 285–303.
   Google Scholar
• Roberts, Jaine. The Hidden Epidemic Amongst Former Miners: Silicosis, Tuberculosis and the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Westville: Health Systems Trust, 2009.
   Google Scholar
• Rosner, David, and GeraldMarkowitz. Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America. 2nd ed.Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2006.
   Google Scholar
• Sayers, R. R., and A. J.Lanza. “History of Silicosis and Asbestosis.” In Silicosis and Asbestosis, edited by A. J.Lanza, 3–30. London: Oxford University Press, 1938.
   Google Scholar
• Smith, MatthewJohn. “Working in the Grave: The Development of a Health and Safety System on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines, 1900–1939.” MA thesis, Rhodes University1993.
   Google Scholar
• Steen, T. W., K. M.Gyi, N. W.White, T.Gabosianelwe, S.Ludick, G. N.Mazonde, N.Mabongo et al., “Prevalence of Occupational Lung Diseases Among Botswana Men Formerly Employed in the South African Mining Industry.” Occupational and Environmental Medicine54 (1997): 19–26.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stuckler, David, SanjayBasu, MartinMcKee, and MarkLurie. “Mining and Risk of Tuberculosis in Sub-Saharan Africa.” American Journal of Public Health101, no. 3 (2010): 524–530.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tweedale, Geoffrey. Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard. 2nd ed.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
   Google Scholar
• Watkins-Pitchford, W. “The Silicosis of the South African Gold Mines, and the Changes Produced in It by Legislative and Administrative Efforts.” The Journal of Industrial Hygiene IX, no.4 (1927): 109–139.
   Google Scholar
• WHO (World Health Organisation). Global Tuberculosis Control. Geneva: WHO Report, 2011.
   Google Scholar
• Wylie, Diana. Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001.
   Google Scholar
• Yudelman, David. The Emergence of Modern South Africa: State, Capital, and the Incorporation of Organized Labor on the South African Gold Fields, 1902–1939. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
   Google Scholar