Name: Negotiating Radiation Protection in the Nuclear Age. Histories of Exposure and Expertise
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Author: Angela N. H. Creager;Maria Rentetzi;M. Susan Lindee
ISBN: 9780822948582

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Negotiating Radiation Protection in the Nuclear Age. Histories of Exposure and Expertise

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Author

Angela N. H. Creager;Maria Rentetzi;M. Susan Lindee

Year

2025

Pages

336

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.90 x 15.20 cm

ISBN13

9780822948582

Negotiating Radiation Protection in the Nuclear Age. Histories of Exposure and Expertise

Angela N. H. Creager;Maria Rentetzi;M. Susan Lindee (Author) · University of Pittsburgh Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Negotiating Radiation Protection in the Nuclear Age. Histories of Exposure and Expertise"

The development of nuclear technologies for war, medicine, and energy production dramatically increased the number of people exposed to artificial radioactivity and raised new stakes and questions about protecting them. This volume examines how the establishment of standards and protocols for radiation protection was not only a technical process, but also the by-product of extensive and ongoing negotiations among scientists, states, international bodies, lawyers, economists, companies, unions, and activists. Over time, exposed individuals—whether Japanese survivors, accident or fallout victims, atomic veterans, or workers—have leveraged their own experiences of radiation exposure to challenge powerful institutions and their standards. Contributors explore radiation risk and protection policies across the globe, from Japan to Canada, Britain to North Africa, and Spain to Greece. They excavate the legal, scientific, diplomatic, and personal challenges posed by radiation protection. Chapters move from the individual and institutional to the global level, arguing that issues of radiation exposure, like so many other forms of risk, are never merely personal but deeply, often invisibly, political and diplomatic.