Research Catalog

Title

The enemy within : the high cost of living near nuclear reactors : breast cancer, AIDS, low brithweights, and other radiation-induced immune deficiency effects / by Jay M. Gould, with members of the Radiation and Public Health Project, Ernest J. Sternglass, Joseph J. Mangano, William McDonnell.

Publication

New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gould, Jay M.
• Radiation and Public Health Project

Description

v, 346 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Immunosuppression
• Risk Factors
• Nuclear reactors > Health aspects
• Radioactive fallout > Health aspects
• Immunosuppression > Risk factors
• Radioactive Fallout
• Nuclear Reactors
• Immunodeficiency > Complications

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: Fallout and County Breast Cancer Rates -- 2. Fallout and Immune Deficiency -- 3. Low Birthweights and Baby Boomer Immune Deficiency -- 4. Breast Cancer Mortality and Emissions from Nuclear Reactors -- 5. Geographic Differences in Breast Cancer Mortality since 1950 -- 6. Why the National Cancer Institute Failed to Find Increased Cancer Risk Near Nuclear Reactors -- 7. The Nature of Increased Cancer Risk Near Reactors -- 8. Fallout and Breast Cancer -- 9. Is It Too Late? -- Appendix A: How to Calculate Breast Cancer Mortality Rates Near Nuclear Reactors -- Appendix B: Sixty Reactor Sites and Computer Generated Maps of Nearby Counties -- Appendix C: Radioactive Materials Released from Nuclear Power Plants -- Appendix D: How the National Cancer Institute Confirmed that Proximity to Reactors Increases Breast Cancer Risk.

ISBN

1568580665

LCCN

96000789

OCLC

• 34194134
• ocm34194134
• SCSB-4781015

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries