Life Atomic

Name: Life Atomic
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226323961
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A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine

Автор: Angela N. H. Creager

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: The University of Chicago Press

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After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sendin...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Angela N. H. Creager

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2015

страници

512

EAN

9780226323961

ISBN

022632396X

Enbook ID

09374497

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

784

Размери

153 x 232 x 37

Пълно описание

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."

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