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Tortured Science - Health Studies, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons in the United States

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Informationen zum Autor Amy Lowman, Dianne Quigley, Steve Wing Zusammenfassung In Tortured Science, community health activists and researchers reflect on the research program for addressing the health effects of nuclear weapons production at Hanford, WA, Rocky Flats, CO, Livermore Labs, CA, and Fernald, OH. Inhaltsverzeichnis Tribute Steve Wing Foreword: Class, Race, and Research on Health Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Production Acknowledgments Introduction CHAPTER 1 Commentary on Ethics and Community-Based Research: Responsibility, Precaution, and Transparency Sheldon Krimsky CHAPTER 2 Insignificant and Invisible: The Human Toll of the Hanford Thyroid Disease Study Trisha Thompson Pritikin CHAPTER 3 A Community’s Experience with Environmental Health Research at the Fernald Feed Production Plant Edwa Yocum CHAPTER 4 Democracy and Public Health at Rocky Flats: The Examples of Edward A. Martell and Carl J. Johnson LeRoy Moore CHAPTER 5 A Collaborative Effort to Address the Distribution of Plutonium-Contaminated Sludge in Livermore, California Patrice Sutton, Jacqueline Cabasso, Tracy Barreau, and Marylia Kelley CHAPTER 6 Institutional Preferences for Justice, Avoiding Harm, and Expertise in Public Health Policy Making about the Health Consequences of Iodine-131 Nuclear Weapons Testing Fallout Seth Tuler CHAPTER 7 Ethics of Uranium Mining Research and the Navajo People Bindu Pannikar, Esther Yassie, and Doug Brugge CHAPTER 8 Investigation of an Excess of Malignant Melanoma among Employees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Donald F. Austin CHAPTER 9 The Risks of Making Nuclear Weapons Robert Alvarez CHAPTER 10 Improving Community Research Protections for Communities Exposed to Cold War Nuclear Experiments Dianne Quigley CHAPTER 11 Ethical Review of Radiation Effect Narratives Ernest Wallwork Postscript Index ...

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Authors Dianne Lowman Quigley
Assisted by Amy Lowman (Editor), Dianne Quigley (Editor), Steve Wing (Editor)
Publisher Baywood pub co
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 15.05.2012
 
EAN 9780895033956
ISBN 978-0-89503-395-6
No. of pages 282
Dimensions 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
Series Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

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