Plutonium Files America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War

Name: Plutonium Files America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
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ISBN: 9780385319546

ISBN-10: 0385319541

ISBN-13: 9780385319546

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Authors: Eileen Welsome

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In a Massachusetts school, seventy-three disabled children were spoon fed radioactive isotopes along with their morning oatmeal....In an upstate New York hospital, an eighteen-year-old woman, believing she was being treated for a pituitary disorder, was injected with plutonium by Manhattan Project doctors....At a Tennessee prenatal clinic, 829 pregnant women were served "vitamin cocktails"--in truth, drinks containing radioactive iron--as part of their prenatal treatmen.... In 1945, the seismic power of atomic energy was already well known to researchers, but the effects of radiation on human beings were not. Fearful that plutonium would cause a cancer epidemic among workers, Manhattan…

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List price: $16.95
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/10/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Eileen Welsome won the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Award, the Selden Ring Award, & a dozen other major journalism awards in 1994 for breaking the story of America's secret medical experiments in the Cold War in "The Plutonium Files." A former John S. Knight Fellow, she lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Prologue	p. 1
The "Product"
Atomic Utopia
The Proving Ground
"The Buchenwald Touch"
The Reckoning
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Major Sources Used in Notes
Index
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