Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy

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Edition: 1
Release: 1999-04-01
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0875532454
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Deadly Glow is an important story of a public health tragedy. It chronicles the lives of numerous young women who worked in radium application plants in the early 1900s painting numerals on instrument and watch dials. From their experience, the harmful effects of radium deposited in the body became known. The victims suffered from skin ulcerations, tumors, and other severe medical symptoms. Physicians were baffled and misdiagnosed their conditions as heart disease and even syphilis. Solving the intriguing mystery of the workers' disabling, yet unknown, disease would be a complex and difficult task requiring brilliant detective work of several investigators. In time, this tragedy would be recognized as the worlds' first mass experience with injury and death caused by exposure to atomic radiation. This is a compelling story for occupational medicine, health physics, radiation safety, and public health workers. But for all people, Deadly Glow will tell the dreadful tale and heroic conclus Download Deadly Glow for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy

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Edition: 1st Edition. 2nd Printing. 2009
Release: 2009-02-20
Publisher: Springer
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0387794751
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Paralleling the discovery of HIV and the rise of the AIDS pandemic, a flock of naysayers has dedicated itself to replacing genuine knowledge with destructive misinformation—and spreading from the fringe to the mainstream media and the think tank. Now from the editor of the journal AIDS and Behavior comes a bold exposé of the scientific and sociopolitical forces involved in this toxic evasion. Denying AIDS traces the origins of AIDS dissidents disclaimers during the earliest days of the epidemic and delves into the psychology and politics of the current denial movement in its various incarnations. Seth Kalichman focuses not on the “difficult” or doubting patient, but on organized, widespread forms of denial (including the idea that HIV itself is a myth and HIV treatments are poison) and the junk science, faulty logic, conspiracy theories, and larger forces of homophobia and racism that fuel them. The malignant results of AIDS denial can be seen in those individuals who refuse to Download Denying AIDS for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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