Author: Ralph M. Kniseley
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Category : Diagnosis, Radioscopic
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Dynamic Clinical Studies with Radioisotopes
Dynamic clinical studies with radioisotopes
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Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Dynamic Studies with Radioisotopes in Medicine 1974
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Category : Function tests (Medicine)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Category : Function tests (Medicine)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Life Atomic
Author: Angela N. H. Creager
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022601794X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government’s efforts to harness the power of the atom for peace—advancing medicine, domestic energy, and foreign relations. In Life Atomic, Angela N. H. Creager tells the story of how these radioisotopes, which were simultaneously scientific tools and political icons, transformed biomedicine and ecology. Government-produced radioisotopes provided physicians with new tools for diagnosis and therapy, specifically cancer therapy, and enabled biologists to trace molecular transformations. Yet the government’s attempt to present radioisotopes as marvelous dividends of the atomic age was undercut in the 1950s by the fallout debates, as scientists and citizens recognized the hazards of low-level radiation. Creager reveals that growing consciousness of the danger of radioactivity did not reduce the demand for radioisotopes at hospitals and laboratories, but it did change their popular representation from a therapeutic agent to an environmental poison. She then demonstrates how, by the late twentieth century, public fear of radioactivity overshadowed any appreciation of the positive consequences of the AEC’s provision of radioisotopes for research and medicine.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022601794X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government’s efforts to harness the power of the atom for peace—advancing medicine, domestic energy, and foreign relations. In Life Atomic, Angela N. H. Creager tells the story of how these radioisotopes, which were simultaneously scientific tools and political icons, transformed biomedicine and ecology. Government-produced radioisotopes provided physicians with new tools for diagnosis and therapy, specifically cancer therapy, and enabled biologists to trace molecular transformations. Yet the government’s attempt to present radioisotopes as marvelous dividends of the atomic age was undercut in the 1950s by the fallout debates, as scientists and citizens recognized the hazards of low-level radiation. Creager reveals that growing consciousness of the danger of radioactivity did not reduce the demand for radioisotopes at hospitals and laboratories, but it did change their popular representation from a therapeutic agent to an environmental poison. She then demonstrates how, by the late twentieth century, public fear of radioactivity overshadowed any appreciation of the positive consequences of the AEC’s provision of radioisotopes for research and medicine.
Nuclear Science Abstracts
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
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Nuclear Safety
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Category : Nuclear engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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Category : Nuclear engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
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Hearings and Reports on Atomic Energy
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
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Reactor Technology
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Category : Nuclear engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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Category : Nuclear engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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AEC Authorizing Legislation, Fiscal Year 1973
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
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