Woman Who Knew Too Much Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation

ISBN-10: 0472087835

ISBN-13: 9780472087839

Edition: 2001

Authors: Gayle Greene, Helen Caldicott

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Dr. Alice Stewart is a British epidemiologist who revolutionized the concept of radiation risk. Born in 1906, she is an outstanding scientist with more than 400 peer-reviewed papers to her name and someone who has taken courageous and effective stands on public issues. Yet her controversial work lies at the center of a political storm and so has only relatively recently begun to receive significant attention. For more than forty years, Stewart has warned that low-dose radiation is more dangerous than has been acknowledged. While teaching at Oxford in the 1950s she began research that led to the discovery that fetal x-rays double the child's risk of developing cancer. As a result, doctors…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 7/31/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English