| View Larger Image | Multiple Exposures: Chronicles of the Radiation Age | Paperbackby Catherine Caufield (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | University Of Chicago Press | | Page Count: | 304 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 16, 1990 | | Sales Rank: | 1,001,958st |
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"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, industry and the military, and in generating energy. An intelligent, non-alarmist history."—Publishers Weekly |
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