Abstract:The paper investigates the historical formation of the institutional framework for work in the mines, regarding occupational health and safety. In a second level, the article focusses on the medical discourse in Greece about the specific occupational disease of lead poisoning and the role played by the state, mining companies and doctors in the recognition of the disease. In the formation of this framework and the regulations gender has played an important role.
The definition of lead poisoning as an occ… Show more
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