Overview: Interdisciplinary, cooperative study of asbestos issues integrates natural and social sciences.Comprehensive asbestos issues are understood through the asbestos disasters in Japan.Use of tables, figur.Japan’s asbestos disasters, encompassing both occupational disease and environmental pollution, have been caused principally by the asbestos textile, asbestos cement water pipe, and construction industries. This book is unique in its interdisciplinary approach to those disasters as it incorporates medical science, economics, political science, law, architecture, environmental engineerin
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