Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
National Library of Medicine Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Radioecology
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Biology and MedicinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Author-title Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
National Library of Medicine Catalog: Subjects
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Author Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Elements of Controversy
Author: Barton C. HackerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520083233
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics. Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics.