Defending The Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and its Fight for Survival (2008)

A history of the asbestos industry by Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale, published by Oxford University Press in 2008 (reprinted 2013) and dedicated to the memory of Irving J. Selikoff. Noting that nearly 80 per cent of twentieth-century production came after asbestos was linked to mesothelioma, the authors argue the industry mounted a defence strategy built on concealment and misinformation. Chapters cover the industry's growth, how it built its defences, mesothelioma and Selikoff, the 'Chrysotile Defence', compensation, environmental exposure, sales to the developing world and twenty-first-century perspectives.