Multiple Exposures: Chronicles of the Radiation Age

by Catherine Caufield

Book Overview

"Catherine Caufield has written an important book on an important topic:
the history behind the safety standards limiting the effects of high energy
radiation on human beings. . . . Provides an immense amount of information
in a very readable form."--W. Alan Runciman, Prometheus

"From fallout and radon to radioactive smoke detectors and dental X-rays,
Caufield traces the proliferation of the uses of radiation in medicine,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226097854
• ISBN13: 9780226097855
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"