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Health effects of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation : BEIR V

Title
Health effects of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation : BEIR V / Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1990.

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Additional Authors
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations.
Description
xiii, 421 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Series Statement
BEIR ; 5
Uniform Title
BEIR (Series) ; 5.
Subject
  • Low-level radiation > Health aspects
  • Radiation carcinogenesis
  • Ionizing radiation
  • Ionizing radiation > Health aspects
  • Ionizing radiation > Physiological effect
  • Abnormalities, Radiation-Induced
  • Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced
  • Radiation Effects
  • Radiation, Ionizing
  • Radiation carcinogenesis
  • Ionizing radiation > Physiological effect
  • Ionizing radiation > Health aspects
  • Ionizing radiation
  • Low-level radiation > Health aspects
  • Gesundheit
  • Ionisierende Strahlung
Genre/Form
Government publications
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Background information and scientific principles -- 2. Genetic effects of radiation -- 3. Mechanisms of radiation-induced cancer -- 4. Risk of cancer, all sites -- 5. Radiogenic cancer at specific sites -- 6. Other somatic and fetal effects -- 7. Low dose epidemiological studies.
ISBN
  • 0309039959
  • 9780309039956
  • 0309039975
  • 9780309039970
LCCN
89064118
OCLC
  • ocm25510484
  • 25510484
  • SCSB-1743454
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library