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The enemy within : the high cost of living near nuclear reactors : breast cancer, AIDS, low birthweights, and other radiation-induced immune deficiency effects

Title
The enemy within : the high cost of living near nuclear reactors : breast cancer, AIDS, low birthweights, 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 ; London : Four Walls Eight Windows, [1996]
  • [Emeryville, Calif.] : Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West
  • ©1996

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Additional Authors
  • Gould, Jay M.
  • Radiation and Public Health Project.
  • Four Walls Eight Windows (Firm), publisher.
Description
v, 346 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Subject
  • Nuclear reactors > Health aspects
  • Radioactive fallout > Health aspects
  • Immunosuppression > Risk factors
  • Immunodeficiency > Complications
  • Nuclear reactors
  • Radiation Effects
  • Nuclear Reactors
  • Radioactive Fallout > adverse effects
  • Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes > etiology
  • nuclear reactors
  • Nuclear reactors
  • Immunodeficiency > Complications
  • Nuclear reactors > Health aspects
  • Radioactive fallout > Health aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-337) 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
  • 9781568580661
LCCN
96000789
OCLC
  • ocm34194134
  • 34194134
  • SCSB-2093675
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library