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Under the radar cancer and the cold war
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Title
Under the radar [electronic resource] : cancer and the cold war / Ellen Leopold.
ISBN
9780813545653
081354565X
9780813544045 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 284 p. )
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE – UPCC 2017 Archive Complete Supplement V.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Double jeopardy: cancer and the "cure"
The court considers informed consent
The rise of radioactive cobalt
The back story: "a little of the Buchenwald touch"
Behind the fallout controversy: the public, the press, and conflicts of interest
Cancer and fallout: science by circumvention
Paradise lost
Subdued by the system
The hidden assassin: the individual at fault
Experiments by other means.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Radiotherapy - history - United States.
Radioactive Fallout - history - United States.
Patient Rights - history - United States.
Human Experimentation - history - United States.
History, 20th Century - United States.
Cobalt Radioisotopes - history - United States.
Neoplasms - history - United States.
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