ABSTRACT
In the late 1960s, a research collaboration between two young doctors in North Carolina led to a storm of controversy and eventually helped move the plight of byssinotic textile workers onto the national stage. Bouhuys was brought into the fray, in support of these two physicians, one in particular, who together had succeeded in doing what Bouhuys himself had found so terribly difficult—gaining access to a mill to study the health of workers.
