J. Samuel Walker
Permissible Dose
A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century
$45.00, £26.95 hardcover
978-0-520-22328-8
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189 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 9 b&w illustrations.
November 2000, Available worldwide
Categories: History; Ecology, Evolution, Environment; American Studies; United States History; Technology & Society; History of Medicine
November 2000, Available worldwide
Categories: History; Ecology, Evolution, Environment; American Studies; United States History; Technology & Society; History of Medicine
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"A crisp and compelling assessment of the issues surrounding radiation protection. . . . Walker has a remarkable ability to make complicated issues clear and easy to understand. "—Allan M. Winkler, author of Life under a Cloud
"This concise and readable guide to the historical development of radiation protection standards by the federal government is exceptionally even-handed in discussing often controversial issues."—Barton C. Hacker, author of Elements of Controversy
"This concise and readable guide to the historical development of radiation protection standards by the federal government is exceptionally even-handed in discussing often controversial issues."—Barton C. Hacker, author of Elements of Controversy
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.
Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective, by J. Samuel Walker
Containing the Atom: Nuclear Regulation in a Changing Environment, 1963-1971, by J. Samuel Walker
Containing the Atom: Nuclear Regulation in a Changing Environment, 1963-1971, by J. Samuel Walker