Angela N. H. Creager - Life Atomic [Delshady Digital] [EPUB]

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Type: E-Book
Platform: Any compatible E-Book reader
More Info: http://www.amazon.com/Life-A...cine-Synthesis/dp/022632396X

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Posted by: Delshady Digital (https://kat.cr/user/TheDels/)
Posted on: 31/01/2016

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After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing
radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to
scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of
Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government’s efforts to harness
the power of the atom for peace—advancing medicine, domestic energy, and foreign
relations.

In Life Atomic, Angela N. H. Creager tells the story of how these radioisotopes,
which were simultaneously scientific tools and political icons, transformed
biomedicine and ecology. Government-produced radioisotopes provided physicians
with new tools for diagnosis and therapy, specifically cancer therapy, and
enabled biologists to trace molecular transformations. Yet the government’s
attempt to present radioisotopes as marvelous dividends of the atomic age was
undercut in the 1950s by the fallout debates, as scientists and citizens
recognized the hazards of low-level radiation. Creager reveals that growing
consciousness of the danger of radioactivity did not reduce the demand for
radioisotopes at hospitals and laboratories, but it did change their popular
representation from a therapeutic agent to an environmental poison. She then
demonstrates how, by the late twentieth century, public fear of radioactivity
overshadowed any appreciation of the positive consequences of the AEC’s
provision of radioisotopes for research and medicine.

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Originally Published: October 2, 2013
Author: Angela N. H. Creager