Creager Angela N. H. Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine 9780226323961

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Автор: Creager Angela N. H.
Название: Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
ISBN: 9780226323961
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

Медицинская радиология (лучевая диагностика, лучевая терапия)

История естественных наук

Ядерная физика

Ядерная химия, фотохимия и радиохимия

ISBN-10: 022632396X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 512
Вес: 0.77 кг.
Дата издания: 07.10.2015
Серия: Synthesis
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: , black & white illustrations
Размер: 232 x 153 x 37
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: A history of radioisotopes in science and medicine
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Поставляется из: Англии
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 governments 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 governments 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 AECs provision of radioisotopes for research and medicine.

Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine, Creager Angela N. H.