[xmca] moral denial

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

I am considering doing some work with an historian who has written the 
history of an asbestos plant and its community. Does anyone know of any 
work done, preferably in the CHAT tradition, on the opposite of a moral 
panic, what we could call, I suppose, "moral denial"? There is lot about 
management cover-up, even stuff about panic over asbestos, medical 
evidence, and "living with asbestos," but nothing about how a whole 
comunity can keep on working with asbestos when the lethal nature of the 
material was already public knowledge, until half the town had died of 
or contracted asbestosis. We have lots of ideas, but like to know if 
anyone else has looked at this.

Any hints?
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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