The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Revised Ed. : Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation /

The Woman Who Knew Too Much illuminates the life and achievements of the remarkable woman scientist who revolutionized the concept of radiation risk. For more than 40 years, Alice Stewart (1906-2002) warned that low-dose radiation was more dangerous than anyone acknowledged. In the 1950s she discove...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Greene, Gayle, 1943- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Édition:Second edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Stewart, Alice M. > (Alice Mary), > 1906-2002 > Political activity.
Stewart, Alice M. > (Alice Mary), > 1906-2002.
Radiation > Health aspects.
Radiation injuries > Prevention > Political aspects.
Women physicians > England > Biography.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface to the second edition
  • 1. Introduction : daughter of time
  • part 1. The making of a doctor
  • 2. Dr. Lucy and Daddy Naish
  • 3. School days and Cambridge
  • 4. Marriage, motherhood, medical practice : through the war years
  • part 2. Engendering epidemiology
  • 5. Changing subjects
  • 6. X-rays and childhood cancer
  • 7. Dr. Doolittle's team for the moon
  • part 3. Through the looking glass, onto the international nuclear scene...
  • 8. Up against the Department of Energy
  • 9. Taking on the international nuclear regulatory system
  • 10. Rogue scientists
  • 11. Alice in Blunderland : back in Britain
  • 12. Fallout
  • 13. The invisibilizing of Alice
  • part 4. A message to the planet
  • 14. Epidemiology and Alice Stewart
  • 15. The good doctor
  • 16. Pioneer and pariah
  • 17. Endings.

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