@article{ref1,
title="Accident insurance, sickness, and science: New Zealand's no-fault system",
journal="International journal of health services",
year="2002",
author="Dew, Kevin",
volume="32",
number="1",
pages="163-178",
abstract="This article explores the process of seeking compensation for occupational illness under a no-fault accident insurance scheme. The author uses two case studies--firefighters who attended a fire at a chemical storage depot and timbermill workers who worked with pentachlorophenol--to illustrate how science can be used to deny compensation to sick and dying workers. The results of the studies suggest that a no-fault accident compensation scheme, considered to be a victory for workers, offers no guarantee of just outcomes for working people. And science can be co-opted and used to support business and state interests against workers; this ideological support is increasingly hidden behind the development of &quot;objective&quot; systems of assessing compensation claims.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0020-7314",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}