An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

DERICKSON, Alan

3 entries
  • 13296

Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.

"The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both to prevent occupational hazards and to assure themselves of adequate health care. Among other projects, they planned, built, and governed more than twenty general hospitals throughout the Western United States and Canada. Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy is an engaging and richly documented account of this first attempt to create a democratically controlled health care system in North America. Focusing on the efforts of local unions, Derickson illuminates the broader history of the Western labor movement, the self-help traditions of rank-and-file workers, and the evolution of health care on the industrial frontier" (publisher).



Subjects: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE › History of Occupational Health & Medicine, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE › Miners' Diseases, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health
  • 13294

Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.


Subjects: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE › History of Occupational Health & Medicine, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE › Miners' Diseases, PULMONOLOGY › Lung Diseases
  • 13295

Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Sleep Physiology & Medicine, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE , OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE › History of Occupational Health & Medicine