Under the radar
Subtitle: cancer and the cold war
By: Ellen Leopold.
Series: Critical issues in health and medicine
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780813544045
Subjects: Cancer -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Cobalt -- Isotopes -- Therapeutic use -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Cold War -- Health aspects -- United States; Informed consent (Medical law) -- United States; Radioactive fallout -- United States; Radiation carcinogenesis -- United States; Neoplasms -- history -- United States; Cobalt Radioisotopes -- history -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Human Experimentation -- history -- United States; Patient Rights -- history -- United States; Radioactive Fallout -- history -- United States; Radiotherapy -- history -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Double jeopardy: cancer and the "cure"; title: The court considers informed consent; title: The rise of radioactive cobalt; title: The back story: "a little of the Buchenwald touch"; title: Behind the fallout controversy: the public, the press, and conflicts of interest; title: Cancer and fallout: science by circumvention; title: Paradise lost; title: Subdued by the system; title: The hidden assassin: the individual at fault; title: Experiments by other means.