Title: Cancer factories : America's tragic quest for uranium self-sufficiency /
Authors: Ball, Howard, 1937-
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Uranium radiation effects.; Occupational Diseases; Neoplasms etiology; Mining; Health Policy; Uranium miners Health and hygiene United States.; Uranium mines and mining United States History.; Uranium industry Government policy United States History.; United States; United States
Contents: Ch. 1. The Context: America in the Post-World War II Years -- Ch. 2. Mining Uranium: National Policies, Uranium, and the Etiology of the Cancers in the Uranium Miners -- Ch. 3. The Pact with the Devil: U.S. Public Health Service Uranium Miners Studies, 1950-Present -- Ch. 4. The Uranium Miners in the Legal Environment: Begay v. United States (1984) and Barnson v. United States (1985) -- Ch. 5. The Politics of Radioactivity in Congress: The 1990 Compensatory Legislation -- Ch. 6. The Uranium Miners' Experience Viewed in a Comparative Context -- Ch. 7. Conclusion.