1. The European mesothelioma epidemic
2. See, for example, P. Brodeur, Expendable Americans: the incredible story of how tens of thousands of American men and women die each year of preventable industrial disease (New York, Viking Press, 1974); J. Myers, `Asbestos and asbestos-related disease in South Africa', Saldru Working Paper No. 28 ( Cape Town, Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit, 1980); R. Proctor, Cancer Wars: how politics shapes what we know and don't know about cancer ( New York, NY, Basic Books, 1995), pp. 110-22; B. Castleman, Asbestos: medical and legal aspects, 4th ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Aspen Law & Business, 1996); G. Tweedale, Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the asbestos hazard ( Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000); R. Johnston and A. McIvor , Lethal Work: a history of the asbestos tragedy in Scotland (East Linton, Tuckwell Press, 2000); J. McCulloch, Asbestos Blues: labour, capital, physicians and the state in South Africa ( Oxford, James Currey, 2002).
3. The asbestos cancer epidemic.