Staff dining room of the Hospital of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

Interior photograph of the staff dining room taken to show ceilings

Mary Dern Goodrich auditorium at the Hospital of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

Interior photograph of the Mary Dern Goodrich auditorium taken to show ceilings

Hospital office at the Hospital of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

Interior photograph of the hospital office, taken to show ceilings

Thank you letter from Johns-Manville Corporation with photo - Duane not in the photo

Letters and photograph of community leader briefing

Coping with insidious injuries: the case of Johns-Manville Corporation and asbestos exposure

Litigation involving the Johns-Manville Corporation and asbestos related diseases shows the complexity of dealing with the growing problem of insidious injuries. These are injuries, often large scale, in which the causes are rendered obscure by (a) a latency period, (b) manifestation only in a segment of the exposed population, (c) manifestation in heightened risk of diseases for which there are other causes, and/or (d) the social and spatial dispersion of the injured people. Powerful corporate actors like Johns-Manville are shown to be able to postpone and sometimes escape liability, but also to embody the potential capacity to pay compensation to victims of long-latent disease. Johns-Manville's bankruptcy reorganization was not a travesty of justice, as has been alleged, but a way of balancing the interests of present and future victims. A tension between goals of compensation and deterrence or punishment is revealed. We argue that minimizing insidious injuries depends less on punishment than on effective data collection, analysis, and public dissemination. Incentives are needed to make managers give early and full information about dangerous products and processes, but the threat of tort litigation can have the unintended consequence of leading managers to withhold information and assistance from victims for fear of lawsuits

Thermal insulation development : heat loss from sir mark a piping due to pipe hanger and calrod penetrations through LK insulation (supplemental report) /

Work performed at the Johns-Manville Corporation."November 30, 1953."Cover title.Mode of access: Internet

Thermal insulation development : final report /

"September 14, 1953."Work performed at the Johns-Manville Corporation.Cover title.Mode of access: Internet