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Life atomic : a history of radioisotopes in science and medicine
- Title
- Life atomic : a history of radioisotopes in science and medicine / Angela N.H. Creager.
- Author
- Creager, Angela N. H.
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 489 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- "After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission 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, 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." -- back cover
- Series Statement
- Synthesis : a series in the history of chemistry, broadly construed
- Uniform Title
- Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-460) and index.
- Contents
- Tracers -- Cyclotrons -- Reactors -- Embargo -- Dividends -- Sales -- Pathways -- Guinea pigs -- Beams and emanations -- Ecosystems -- Half-lives.
- Call Number
- JBE 18-904
- ISBN
- 9780226017808 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 022601780X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 022632396X
- 9780226323961
- LCCN
- 2013006680
- 40022775250
- OCLC
- 828724071
- Author
- Creager, Angela N. H., author.
- Title
- Life atomic : a history of radioisotopes in science and medicine / Angela N.H. Creager.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Synthesis : a series in the history of chemistry, broadly construedSynthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-460) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022775250
- Research Call Number
- JBE 18-904