A town called Asbestos : environmental contamination, health, and resilience in a resource community / Jessica van Horssen ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

Asbestos blues : labour, capital, physicians & the state in South Africa / Jock McCulloch.

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A town called Asbestos : environmental contamination, health, and resilience in a resource community / Jessica van Horssen ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

Asbestos blues : labour, capital, physicians & the state in South Africa / Jock McCulloch.