Research Catalog

Title

Radiation and health / Thormod Henriksen and H. David Maillie.

Author

Henriksen, Thormod, 1928-

Publication

London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Maillie, H. David

Description

x, 226 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Str⁰aling og helse. English

Alternative Title

• Radiation & health
• Str⁰aling og helse.

Subject

• Animal populations > Effect of radiation on
• Background Radiation
• Plants > Effect of radiation on
• Plants > Effect of radioactive pollution on
• Radiation > Physiological effect
• Radiation Effects
• Radiation, Background
• Radioactivity
• Radiobiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]) and index.

Language (note)

• Translation and revision of: Str⁰aling og helse.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

RAdiation is discovered -- What is radioactivity? -- Radioactive decay laws -- Activity and dose -- Artificial radioactive isotopes -- The measurement of radiation -- Natural radiation -- Radiation in medicine and research -- Nuclear weapons and reactor accidents -- Radiation and health. Large doses -- Small doses and risk estimates -- Radiation biology -- mechanisms -- Radiation and the environment -- Exercises, examples, and scenarios.

ISBN

• 0415271614
• 0415271622 (PBK.)

OCLC

49692352

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library