Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520223288)

How much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts to ensure radiation safety for nuclear workers and for the general public. The risks of radiation--caused by fallout from nuclear bomb testing, exposure from medical or manufacturing procedures, effluents from nuclear power, or radioactivity from other sources--have aroused more sustained controversy and public fear than any other comparable industrial or environmental hazard. Walker clarifies the entire radiation debate, showing that permissible dose levels are a key to the principles and practices that have prevailed in the field of radiation protection since the 1930s, and to their highly charged political and scientific history as well.

Author: J. Samuel Walker
ISBN-10: 0520223284
ISBN-13: 9780520223288
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2000
Pages: 182
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.31w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2001 pg. 1647