TY  - BOOK
AU  - Creager,Angela N.H.
TI  - Life atomic: a history of radioisotopes in science and medicine 
T2  - Synthesis : a series in the history of chemistry, broadly construed
SN  - 9780226017808
AV  - QC798.A1 C743 2013
U1  - 660/.2988409 23
PY  - 0000///
KW  - Radioisotopes in research
KW  - History
KW  - Radioisotopes in medical diagnosis
KW  - Nuclear medicine
KW  - Radioisotopes
KW  - Industrial applications
KW  - 30.01 history of the exact sciences
KW  - bcl
KW  - fast
KW  - Radioisotoper
KW  - historia
KW  - sao
KW  - Nuklearmedicin
KW  - history
KW  - therapeutic use
KW  - Nuclear Medicine
KW  - United States
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-460) and index; Tracers -- Cyclotrons -- Reactors -- Embargo -- Dividends -- Sales -- Pathways -- Guinea pigs -- Beams and emanations -- Ecosystems -- Half-lives
N2  - "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
ER  -