From the definition of silicosis at the 1930 Johannesburg conference to the blurred boundaries between pneumoconioses, sarcoidosis, and pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP).
The 1930 International Labour Office Conference on silicosis in Johannesburg identified silicosis by setting a medicolegal framework to its nosology: as with other occupational illnesses, its medical content was fixed under economic pressure. This article follows a reading of all the proceedings of this conference (debates and reports of experts) to examine their potential impact on the etiology and nosology of other diseases, specifically sarcoidosis and pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP), "idiopathic" diseases in which inorganic particles may be involved. We propose renewed study of the role of inorganic particles in these diseases. To do this, we propose to mobilize detection means such as mineralogical analysis and electron microscopy and in depth interviewing that are currently seldom used in France, in order to establish diagnosis and the potential occupational and environmental origin of these diseases.
Pneumology Unit and Laboratory of mineral pathologies at the Centre Hospitalier Saint Joseph Saint Luc, Lyon, France.|Centre for European Studies, ERC Grant Silicosis Sciences Po, Paris, France.
Michel
M
Vincent
Pneumology Unit and Laboratory of mineral pathologies at the Centre Hospitalier Saint Joseph Saint Luc, Lyon, France.
Cecile
C
Chemarin
Centre for European Studies, ERC Grant Silicosis Sciences Po, Paris, France.|Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP), Sciences Po, Paris, France.|Centre for Employment Studies, Noisy-le-Grand, France.
Catherine
C
Cavalin
Pneumology Unit and Laboratory of mineral pathologies at the Centre Hospitalier Saint Joseph Saint Luc, Lyon, France.|Centre for European Studies, ERC Grant Silicosis Sciences Po, Paris, France.
Mikael
M
Catinon
Centre for European Studies, ERC Grant Silicosis Sciences Po, Paris, France.|Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP), Sciences Po, Paris, France.|National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), Paris, France.
Paul-André
PA
Rosental
D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011009:Pneumoconiosis / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history; D011649:Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D012829:Silicosis / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D013019:South Africa
in-depth interview; mineralogical analysis; pneumoconiosis; pulmonary alveolar proteinosis; sarcoidosis