Buffalo Creek Disaster

History

Gerald M. Stern

Americas

Random House, Inc.

<p>Dust jacket notes:  "On a sleepy Saturday morning in a mountain hollow in West Virginia, a coal company's refuse-pile dam collapsed, devastating the sixteen small towns in the Buffalo Creek Valley below, killing over 125 people and scarring forever the lives of those who survived.  The coal company immediately proclaimed the tragedy 'an act of God.'  The survivors knew better.  As one said, 'You can blame the Almighty all right - the almighty dollar.'  A few hundred of these four thousand survivors banded together to find 'a law firm the company can't scare off or buy off.'  They found Gerald Stern, the public interest partner in the well-known Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold &amp; Porter.  The reader joins Gerald Stern on his first flight into this remote are of West Virginia and follows him, step by step, as he reveals his thoughts, fears and strategies throughout one of the largest lawsuits in this country's history.  It is a fascinating account of 'investigative lawyering,' of how he used the law to uncover, layer by layer, the evidence of the coal company's reckless conduct.  But The Buffalo Creek Disaster is more than an inside look at a gripping legal drama.  It is also an absorbing tale of human suffering, and human triumph, with personal stories movingly interwoven among the complexities of the court proceedings.  The suspense grows as each side jockeys to win the case.  In the end, there is a whole army of lawyers, doctors and psychiatrists involved as the survivors establish their right to recover, as survivors, for their own mental suffering, in addition to their traditional right to recover for the deaths of their loved ones and for their property losses.  Gerald Stern has written a penetrating behind-the-scenes account of a precedent-making lawsuit, unveiling the mystery of the law in human terms."</p>

The Buffalo Creek Disaster: The Story of the Survivors' Unprecedented Lawsuit

Legal History

Random House]

A team of internationally acknowledged authorities have contributed chapters to this volume on Parkinson's disease, which attempts to give a scholarly, detailed, comprehensive and well-referenced account of this ubiquitous disease of the central nervous system. It includes a historical account of the life and times of James Parkinson including his scientific achievements, contributions from the relevant neurosciences - functional neuroanatomy, clinical neurophysiology of the basal ganglia, neurochemistry, experimental psychology and neuropathology, as well as the experimental background to brain grafts. Also included is an up-to-date discussion on the latest clinical experience with transplant surgery. The clinical section covers aetiologies, epidemiology, clinical features and differential diagnoses, neuropsychiatric aspects, methods of assessment, the many facets of medical and surgical treatments, and concludes with an attempt to assess the present and future potential of research. This book should be of interest to neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuropathologists and neuropharmacologists.

Parkinson's Disease

Medical Books

Medicine

CRC-Press

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