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Cancer factories : America's tragic quest for uranium self-sufficiency

Title
Cancer factories : America's tragic quest for uranium self-sufficiency / Howard Ball.
Author
Ball, Howard, 1937-
Publication
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993.

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Description
xiv, 188 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Contributions in medical studies, 0886-8220 ; no. 37
Uniform Title
Contributions in medical studies ; no. 37.
Subject
  • Uranium miners > Health and hygiene > United States
  • Uranium mines and mining > United States > History
  • Uranium industry > Government policy > History. > United States
  • Uranium
  • Health Policy > history
  • Mining > history
  • Neoplasms > etiology
  • Occupational Diseases > history
  • Uranium
  • uranium
  • Uranium industry > Government policy
  • Uranium miners > Health and hygiene
  • Uranium mines and mining
  • Uranbergbau
  • Gesundheitsgefährdung
  • Mijnwerkers
  • Kanker
  • Beroepsziekten
  • Radiacao
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-181) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. The Context: America in the Post-World War II Years -- Ch. 2. Mining Uranium: National Policies, Uranium, and the Etiology of the Cancers in the Uranium Miners -- Ch. 3. The Pact with the Devil: U.S. Public Health Service Uranium Miners Studies, 1950-Present -- Ch. 4. The Uranium Miners in the Legal Environment: Begay v. United States (1984) and Barnson v. United States (1985) -- Ch. 5. The Politics of Radioactivity in Congress: The 1990 Compensatory Legislation -- Ch. 6. The Uranium Miners' Experience Viewed in a Comparative Context -- Ch. 7. Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 0313275661
  • 9780313275661
LCCN
92032225
OCLC
  • ocm26586358
  • 26586358
  • SCSB-1991926
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library