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Cancer Factories: America's Tragic Quest for Uranium Self-Sufficiency
Studies the political, legal, social, medical, engineering and ethical problems that emerged when American leaders developed a nuclear arsenal to contain the USSR without considering the potential cost in innocent lives; intended for medical and public health personnel, policy-makers and others.
| Author(s) | By Howard Ball. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 216 |
| Published in | United States |
| Published | 24 Mar 1993 |
| Availability | Not yet available |
Studies the political, legal, social, medical, engineering and ethical problems that emerged when American leaders developed a nuclear arsenal to contain the USSR without considering the potential cost in innocent lives; intended for medical and public health personnel, policy-makers and others.
Preface The Context; America in the Post-War Years Mining Uranium: National Policies, Uranium and the Etiology of the Cancers in the Uranium Miners The Pact with the Devil: U.S. PHS Studies and Medical Analyses, 1950-Present The Health Consequences an
HOWARD BALL, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Vermont, has written at length on public policy questions. His books include Of Power and Right (1992), We Have a Duty:
