摘要：The second half of the nineteenth-century in the United States was a period of rapid and unwieldy industrial expansion. As the technological developments and economic opportunities presented to capitalists dominated American society, the adverse side effects that they inevitably caused were left unquestioned. One such negative impact of industrialization was the proliferation of"industdal disease," maladies and sicknesses attributed to workplace conditions which posed heretofore unknown hazards to the human body. Christopher C. Sellers discusses the development of the science of industrial disease and its political and social implications in Hazards of the,lob: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science.
