Cancer factories : America's tragic quest for uranium self-sufficiency
- Title
- Cancer factories : America's tragic quest for uranium self-sufficiency / Howard Ball.
- Published by
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 188 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm.
- Series statement
- Contributions in medical studies, 0886-8220 ; no. 37
- Uniform title
- Contributions in medical studies ; no. 37.
- Subject
- Uranium miners > Health and hygiene > United States
- Uranium mines and mining > United States > History
- Uranium industry > Government policy > History. > United States
- Uranium
- Health Policy > history
- Mining > history
- Neoplasms > etiology
- Occupational Diseases > history
- Uranium
- uranium
- Uranium industry > Government policy
- Uranium miners > Health and hygiene
- Uranium mines and mining
- Uranbergbau
- Gesundheitsgefährdung
- Mijnwerkers
- Kanker
- Beroepsziekten
- Radiacao
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- History
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-181) and index.