Life Atomic Synthesis

"After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government's efforts to harness the power of the atom for peace - advancing medicine, domestic energy, and foreign relations. In Life Atomic, Angela N. H. Creager tells the story of how these radioisotopes, which were simultaneously scientific tools and political icons, transformed biomedicine and ecology, Government-produced radioisotopes provided physicians with new tools for diagnosis and therapy, and enabled biologists to trace molecular transformations. Yet the government's attempt to present radioisotopes as marvelous dividends of the atomic age was undercut in the 1950s by the fallout debates, as scientists and citizens recognized the hazards of low-level radiation." -- back cover

שנה

2013

שפה

English

הוצאה

The University of Chicago Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

489

ISBN

9780226017808

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata