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[Free eBook] Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine [Technology & Political History]

Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine by Angela H. N. Creager, a professor of History of Science at Princeton University, is a science and medical history book, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher The University of Chicago Press.

This is their featured Free eBook of the Month for August, and is an accessibly-written look at the history and politics surrounding the development and use of radioisotopes as government-sponsored tools for science and medicine from the mid-20th century onwards, while public perception of them shifted from more positive to negative due to growing societal concerns over the effects of radioactivity.

Offered worldwide through the month of August, available directly from the publisher's website.

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Description After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 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, specifically cancer 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. Creager reveals that growing consciousness of the danger of radioactivity did not reduce the demand for radioisotopes at hospitals and laboratories, but it did change their popular representation from a therapeutic agent to an environmental poison. She then demonstrates how, by the late twentieth century, public fear of radioactivity overshadowed any appreciation of the positive consequences of the AEC’s provision of radioisotopes for research and medicine.

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Tools of Chemical Regulation

Emmanuel Henry, Valentin Thomas, Sara Angeli Aguiton, Marc-Oliver Déplaude and Nathalie Jas, eds. 2021. Beyond the Production of Ignorance: The Pervasiveness of Industry Influence through the Tools of Chemical Regulation (Special Issue). Science, Technology, & Human Values 46(5).  

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/sthd/46/5

Introduction: Beyond the Production of Ignorance: The Pervasiveness of Industry Influence through the Tools of Chemical Regulation (Emmanuel Henry, Valentin Thomas, Sara Angeli Aguiton, Marc-Olivier De´plaude, and Nathalie Jas) 

Creating Regulatory Harmony: The Participatory Politics of OECD Chemical Testing Standards in the Making 925 (Colleen Lanier-Christensen) 

Governing Occupational Exposure Using Thresholds: A Policy Biased Toward Industry 953 (Emmanuel Henry) 

To Test or Not to Test: Tools, Rules, and Corporate Data in US Chemicals Regulation 975 (Angela N. H. Creager) 

Defects in Doubt Manufacturing: The Trajectory of a Pro-industrial Argument in the Struggle for the Definition of Carcinogenic Substances 998 (Valentin Thomas)

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Synopsis : After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 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, specifically cancer 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

 Details : Author : Angela N.H. Creager Pages : 512 pages Publisher : University of Chicago Press Language : ISBN-10 : 022632396X ISBN-13 : 9780226323961Reading Download Pdf Epub

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