Creager, Angela N. H., <br/><br/>
Life atomic :  a history of radioisotopes in science and medicine / 
Angela N.H. Creager. 
 - xvi, 489 pages :  illustrations, portraits ;  24 cm 
 - Synthesis : a series in the history of chemistry, broadly construed .
 - Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press) .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-460) and index. 
<br/><br/>Tracers -- Cyclotrons -- Reactors -- Embargo -- Dividends -- Sales -- Pathways -- Guinea pigs -- Beams and emanations -- Ecosystems -- Half-lives. 
<br/><br/> "After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government's efforts to harness the power of the atom for peace - advancing medicine, domestic energy, and foreign relations. In Life Atomic, Angela N.H. Creager tells the story of how these radioisotopes, which were simultaneously scientific tools and political icons, transformed biomedicine and ecology, Government-produced radioisotopes provided physicians with new tools for diagnosis and therapy, and enabled biologists to trace molecular transformations. Yet the government's attempt to present radioisotopes as marvelous dividends of the atomic age was undercut in the 1950s by the fallout debates, as scientists and citizens recognized the hazards of low-level radiation."--Back cover. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226017808 022601780X 022601794X 9780226017945 022632396X 9780226323961 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>40022775250 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013006680 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB375911  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Radioisotopes in research--History.<br/>Radioisotopes in medical diagnosis--History.<br/>Nuclear medicine--History.<br/>Radioisotopes--Industrial applications--History.<br/>30.01 history of the exact sciences.<br/>Nuclear medicine.<br/>Radioisotopes in medical diagnosis.<br/>Radioisotopes in research.<br/>Radioisotopes--Industrial applications.<br/>Radioisotoper--historia.<br/>Nuklearmedicin--historia.<br/>Radioisotopes--history.<br/>Radioisotopes--therapeutic use.<br/>Nuclear Medicine--history.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC798.A1  / C743 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>660/.2988409 
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>621.039.8  / C74 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WN 11 AA1  / C913L 2013