Tortured Science (eBook, PDF)

Health Studies, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons in the United States
Redaktion: Quigley, Dianne; Wing, Steve; Lowman, Amy

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Produktbeschreibung

In Tortured Science, community health activists and researchers reflect on the research program for addressing the health effects of nuclear weapons production at Hanford, WA, Rocky Flats, CO, Livermore Labs, CA, and Fernald, OH.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351862714
• Artikelnr.: 47954302

Autorenporträt

Amy Lowman, Dianne Quigley, Steve Wing

Inhaltsangabe

Tribute
Steve Wing
Foreword: Class, Race, and Research on Health Impacts of Nuclear Weapons
Production
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Commentary on Ethics and Community-Based Research: Responsibility,
Precaution, and Transparency
Sheldon Krimsky
CHAPTER 2
Insignificant and Invisible: The Human Toll of the Hanford Thyroid Disease
Study
Trisha Thompson Pritikin
CHAPTER 3
A CommunityâEUR(TM)s Experience with Environmental Health Research at the
Fernald Feed Production Plant
Edwa Yocum
CHAPTER 4
Democracy and Public Health at Rocky Flats: The Examples of Edward A.
Martell and Carl J. Johnson
LeRoy Moore
CHAPTER 5
A Collaborative Effort to Address the Distribution of
Plutonium-Contaminated Sludge in Livermore, California
Patrice Sutton, Jacqueline Cabasso, Tracy Barreau, and Marylia Kelley
CHAPTER 6
Institutional Preferences for Justice, Avoiding Harm, and Expertise in
Public Health Policy Making about the Health Consequences of Iodine-131
Nuclear Weapons Testing Fallout
Seth Tuler
CHAPTER 7
Ethics of Uranium Mining Research and the Navajo People
Bindu Pannikar, Esther Yassie, and Doug Brugge
CHAPTER 8
Investigation of an Excess of Malignant Melanoma among Employees of the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Donald F. Austin
CHAPTER 9
The Risks of Making Nuclear Weapons
Robert Alvarez
CHAPTER 10
Improving Community Research Protections for Communities Exposed to Cold
War Nuclear Experiments
Dianne Quigley
CHAPTER 11
Ethical Review of Radiation Effect Narratives
Ernest Wallwork
PostscriptIndex