The Fight against Silicosis in Spain (1930-1975)

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RODRÍGUEZ-OCAÑA, Esteban; MENÉNDEZ-NAVARRO, Alfredo. Hookworm in Rural Spain, 1910-1960: Shifting Paradigms around the Civil War. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2009, 63, 670-674. [full text pdf] Published Online First: 8 April 2009 [Abstract + full text (rapid pdf)]

MENÉNDEZ-NAVARRO, Alfredo. The politics of silicosis in interwar Spain: Republican and Francoist approaches to occupational health. Dynamis, 2008, 28, 77-102. [pdf]

MENÉNDEZ-NAVARRO, Alfredo. Review of MCIVOR, Arthur; JOHNSTON, Ronald. Miners’ Lung. A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007. Dynamis, 2008, 28, 469-471. (Spanish)

MENÉNDEZ NAVARRO, Alfredo. Alice--A Fight for Life (1982) and the Public Perception of the Occupational Risks of Asbestos. Journal of Medicine and Movies, 2007, 3 (2), 49-56. [pdf]

MENÉNDEZ NAVARRO, Alfredo. The politics of silicosis in interwar Spain: Republican and Francoist approaches to occupational health. Paper delivered at the Interwar Health Network Workshop «Crisis as opportunities in interwar health?». University of Granada, 27-28 April 2007.

MENÉNDEZ NAVARRO, Alfredo. Autarky, health insurance and political repression: The Silicosis Scheme in Early Francoist Spain, 1941-1960. Paper delivered at the International Conference «Working with Dust: Health, Dust & Diseases in the History of Occupational Health». The Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, 10-12 April 2006.

RODRÍGUEZ OCAÑA, Esteban; MENÉNDEZ NAVARRO, Alfredo. Hygiene against Miners' Anemia. The Fight against Ancylostomiasis in Spain (1897-1936). Asclepio, 2006, 58 (1), 219-248. (Spanish) [pdf]

MENÉNDEZ NAVARRO, Alfredo. Review of BARTRIP, Peter. Beyond the Factory Gates. Asbestos and Health in Twentieth Century America, London, Continuum, 2006. Dynamis, 2006, 26, 350-357. (Spanish) [pdf]

MARTÍNEZ GONZÁLEZ, M. Cristina; MENÉNDEZ NAVARRO, Alfredo. The National Institute of Silicosis and the Respiratory Occupational Diseases in Spain. In: Álvarez-Sala Walther, J.L.; Casan Clarà, P.; Villena Garrido, V. (eds.), History of Spanish Neumology and Thoracic Surgery, Madrid, Ramírez de Arellano Editores, 2006, pp.145-162. (Spanish) [pdf]

RODRÍGUEZ OCAÑA, Esteban; MENÉNDEZ NAVARRO, Alfredo. Health, Work and Medicine in the Spain of Social Legislation, 1900-1939. Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, 2006, 9 (2), 81-88. (Spanish) [pdf]

MENÉNDEZ NAVARRO, Alfredo. The role of expert knowledge in the management and perception of occupational risks. Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, 2003, 6 (4), 158-165. (Spanish) [pdf]

MENÉNDEZ-NAVARRO, Alfredo; RODRÍGUEZ-OCAÑA, Esteban. From 'Accident Medicine' to 'Factory Medicine': Spanish Occupational Medicine in the Twentieth Century. In: Grieco, A.; Fano, D.; Carter, T.; Iavicoli, S. (eds.), Origins of Occupational Health Associations in the World, Amsterdam, Elsevier Science B.V., 2003, pp. 207-216 [pdf]* *Single copies of this chapter can be download and printed only for the reader's personal research and study

MENÉNDEZ NAVARRO, Alfredo. Shaping Industrial Health: The Debate on Asbestos Dust Hazards in UK, 1928-1939. In: Esteban Rodríguez Ocaña (ed.), The Politics of Healthy Life, An International Perspective, Sheffield, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, 2002, pp. 63-87. [pdf]

MENÉNDEZ NAVARRO, Alfredo. Review of TWEEDALE, Geoffrey. Magic Mineral to Killer Dust. Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. Dynamis, 2001, 21, 536-543.   (Spanish) [html]