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PublisherBetween the Lines

ISBN-101771131470

ISBN-139781771131476

eBay Product ID (ePID)20050395940

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Book TitlePain and Prejudice : What Science Can Learn about Work from the People Who Do It

Number of Pages155 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLabor & Industrial Relations, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Radiation, Industrial Health & Safety, Occupational & Industrial Medicine

Publication Year2014

GenrePolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, Science, Medical

AuthorKaren Messing

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight8.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-410107

Reviews"Karen Messing demonstrates a profound empathy for "invisible" people, the legion of workers performing jobs of which most of us are unaware or ignore. Pain and Prejudice is an important book that informs us how uninformed or thoughtless we are to problems of stress and pollution which can be relieved by taking them seriously and listening to the workers themselves."

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal613.6/2

Table Of ContentPreface Chapter 1: Factory workers Chapter 2: The invisible world of cleaning Chapter 3: Standing still Chapter 4: The brains of low-paid workers Chapter 5: Invisible teamwork Chapter 6: Home invasion: When workers lose control over their schedules Chapter 7: Teachers and numbers Chapter 8: Becoming a scientist Chapter 9: Crabs, pain and skeptical scientists Chapter 10: A statistician's toes and the empathy gap in scientific articles Chapter 11: Can scientists care?

SynopsisWorkers around the world are confronting suffering and pain caused by their employment without any help from the very scientists and occupational health experts who are supposed to make our lives easier., In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn't help. Neither the refinery company nor the scientific community was interested in the scary results of her chromosome studies. Over the next decades Messing encountered many more cases of workers around the world-factory workers, cleaners, checkout clerks, bank tellers, food servers, nurses, teachers-suffering and in pain without any help from the very scientists and occupational health experts whose work was supposed to make their lives easier. Arguing that rules for scientific practice can make it hard to see what really makes workers sick, in Pain and Prejudice Messing tells the story of how she went from looking at test tubes to listening to workers., In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn't help. Neither the refinery company nor the scientific community was interested in the scary results of her chromosome studies. Over the next decades Messing encountered many more cases of workers around the world--factory workers, cleaners, checkout clerks, bank tellers, food servers, nurses, teachers--suffering and in pain without any help from the very scientists and occupational health experts whose work was supposed to make their lives easier. Arguing that rules for scientific practice can make it hard to see what really makes workers sick, in Pain and Prejudice Messing tells the story of how she went from looking at test tubes to listening to workers.

LC Classification NumberRC967.M41 2014