In this Book
- Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century
- Book
- 2000
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
How much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts to ensure radiation safety for nuclear workers and for the general public. The risks of radiation—caused by fallout from nuclear bomb testing, exposure from medical or manufacturing procedures, effluents from nuclear power, or radioactivity from other sources—have aroused more sustained controversy and public fear than any other comparable industrial or environmental hazard. Walker clarifies the entire radiation debate, showing that permissible dose levels are a key to the principles and practices that have prevailed in the field of radiation protection since the 1930s, and to their highly charged political and scientific history as well.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- List of Figures
- pp. vii-viii
- 4. New Controversies, New Standards
- pp. 91-128
- 5. The Ambiguities of Radiation Effects
- pp. 129-156
- Essay on Sources
- pp. 157-160
- Production Notes
- pp. 182-183
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520924840
Related ISBN(s)
9780520223288
MARC Record
OCLC
49570023
Pages
189
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No