Effects of Atomic Radiation

A Half-century of Studies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki

William J. Schull (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

1995
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-471-12524-2 (ISBN)

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This book summarizes the scientific conclusions of the ABCC (Atomic Bomb Casuality Commission). With a minimum of technical jargon it gives a personal account of the pertinent events and findings as they have unfolded over the forty-odd years that the study has been underway in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

This book summarizes the scientific conclusions of the ABCC (Atomic Bomb Casuality Commission). Studies with a minimum of technical jargon it gives a personal account of the pertinent events and findings as they have unfolded over the forty-odd years that the study has been underway in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It forms the basis behind out standards of acceptability associated with risks from ionizing radiation.

WILLIAM J. SCHULL, PhD, is currently Director of the Human Genetics Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, where he has been the Ashbel Smith Professor of Academic Medicine since 1984. After receiving his doctorate in genetics from Ohio State University, Dr. Schull went to Japan at the age of 27 to head the Department of Genetics for the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. Over the years, his work with the ABCC led to his involvement in a number of critical related studies, including the Child Health Survey at Nagasaki in 1960 and the Hirado Health Survey in 1964; he was also an integral member of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation of Hiroshima, where he served as Vice Chairman and Director. Dr. Schull is recognized around the world as one of the foremost authorities on the biological effects of radiation. He has been an advisor to the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Energy in the United States, and the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada. He has also advised two panels of the World Health Organization--one researching radiation and human heredity, the other investigating prenatal exposure to the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. In 1970, Dr. Schull was presented with the ABCC's Commemorative Award for his long--standing service and in 1992, was received into the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Emperor of Japan.

Japan: Summer and Autumn 1945; Establishment of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission; The First Decade; A New Research Strategy; Exposure and Dose; The Postnatally Exposed Survivors; The Prenatally Exposed Survivors; The Survivors' Children; Chronology of Major Events.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.10.1995
Zusatzinfo	Illustrationssome col.), plans
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 242 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-471-12524-5 / 0471125245
ISBN-13	978-0-471-12524-2 / 9780471125242
Zustand	Neuware