Multiple Exposures: Chronicles of the Radiation Age
"Catherine Caufield has written an important book on an important topic:the history behind the safety standards limiting the effects of high energyradiation on human beings. . . . Provides an immense amount of informationin a very readable form."—W. Alan Runciman, Prometheus"From fallout and...
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"Catherine Caufield has written an important book on an important topic:the history behind the safety standards limiting the effects of high energyradiation on human beings. . . . Provides an immense amount of informationin a very readable form."—W. Alan Runciman, Prometheus"From fallout and radon to radioactive smoke detectors and dental X-rays,Caufield traces the proliferation of the uses of radiation in medicine,industry and the military, and in generating energy. An intelligent,non-alarmist history."—Publishers Weekly
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226097855 (0226097854)
Publish date: April 16th 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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