{"product_id":"permissible-dose-j-samuel-walker-9780520223288","title":"Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Samuel Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520223284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520223288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.35h x 6.31w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2001 pg. 1647","brand":"J. Samuel Walker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064996475135,"sku":"9780520223288","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a190c15-6ac0-4f54-ae11-a640aaf8a1f6.jpg?v=1768672444","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/permissible-dose-j-samuel-walker-9780520223288","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}