The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0472087835 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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As this spirited biography demonstrates, Stewart's subsequent dedication to investigating the effects of radiation turned her into a kind of guru to the antinuclear movement. From Publishers Weekly In 1956, British physician Alice Stewart discovered that exposing a fetus to a single diagnostic X-ray doubles the risk of an early death from cancer. 31 b&w photos. Yet her controversial findings, published in 1977, have momentous implications because, as Stewart explains, "If we are correct, occupational safety standards wil
nuclear weapons industry is about twenty times more dangerous than safety regulations permit. Two decades later---when she was in her seventies---she again astounded the scientific world with a study showing that the U.S. In 1990, the New York Times called Stewart "perhaps the Energy Department's most influential and feared scientific critic."The Woman Who Knew Too Much traces Stewart's life and career from her early childhood in Sheffield to her medical education at Cambridge to her research positions at Oxford University and the University of Birmingham.Gayle Greene is Professor of Women's Studies and Literature, Scripps College.. This biography illuminates the life and achievements of the remarkable woman scientist who revolutionized the concept of radiation risk.In the 1950s Alice Stewart began research that led to her discovery that fetal X rays double a child's risk of developing cancer. This finding put her at the center of the international controversy over radiation risk
"Courage and Integrity in Science: A Precious Rarety" according to Rudi H. Nussbaum. Courage and Integrity in Science: A Precious RaretyThe Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation by Gayle Greene. Dr. Stewart is a British physician and epidemiologist (born in 1906 into a large family of physicians) who revolutionized the concept of radiation risk. In the 1950s, while surveying childhood mortalities in the British Isles, she finds that then quite common X-ray examinations during pregnancy doubled the risk for childhood cancer. Fueled by the wr. "Excellent Book" according to Cheryl Buswell. The scientific work of Alice B. Stewart is crucial to understanding the low level radiation exposures that ordinary Americans are subject to in their daily lives and how those exposures negatively impact our health. This well-written book reintroduced to me to Dr. Stewart and her life's work and provided many details about her work and life that had never known. I really couldn't put the book down!. Have your children, your daughters must, read this book. H. W. Cummins As Research Director of the Hanford Veterans Cancer Mortality Study I have worked closely with Dr. Alice Stewart. I have learned from her, laughed with her and admired her as the most extraordinary human being I have ever known. But, I never knew her well enough. You must read this book! It will give you a new understanding of the meaning of courage and integrity. More importantly - have your children, especially your daughters, read this book. Thank goodness Gayle Greene has written th