Multiple Exposures: Chronicles of the Radiation Age - Couverture souple

Caufield, Catherine

 
9780226097855: Multiple Exposures: Chronicles of the Radiation Age

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Catherine Caufield has written an important book on an important topic: the history behind the safety standards limiting the effects of high energyradiation on human beings . . . Provides an immense amount of informationin a very readable form W. Alan Runciman, Prometheus "From fallout and radon to radioactive smoke detectors and dental X-rays, Caufield traces the proliferation of the uses of radiation in medicine, industry and the military, and in generating energy. An intelligent, non-alarmist history" Publishers Weekly

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Catherine Caufield has written an important book on an important topic: the history behind the safety standards limiting the effects of high energyradiation on human beings . . . Provides an immense amount of informationin a very readable form W. Alan Runciman, Prometheus "From fallout and radon to radioactive smoke detectors and dental X-rays, Caufield traces the proliferation of the uses of radiation in medicine, industry and the military, and in generating energy. An intelligent, non-alarmist history" Publishers Weekly

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