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Multiple exposures. Chronicles of the Radiation Age (1989)
| Author | Catherine Caufield |
| Date | 1989 |
| Classification | 6.01.4.00/84 (RADIATION - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
IN HER LUCID and thoroughly documented chronicle of the history of ionizing radiation, Catherine Caufield begins with the discovery of X- rays by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895 and proceeds to the discovery of uranium and radium, to nuclear weapons and nuclear power, and to the recent accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. She charts our dangerous love affair with radiation: we learn of radium's early use as a cosmetic and food additive; of the luminous-dial painters killed by exposure to radioactive paint; of the Bikini islanders who played in the radioactive "snow"; and of our belated recognition of radioactivity's devastating, long-term effects. Her account arms the general reader with a wealth of data with which to evaluate the ever complex radiation issue. "Caufield's eye for odd and compelling detail has helped her to write a definitive tale of twentieth-century moonshine .... This modern myth tells us all we need to know about our unbridled ingenuity, our desire to split what is whole, our capacity for self-delusion, and our inability to think in the long." -The Observer (London) "Amongst the many surprises in Catherine Caufield's excellent account of the Radiation Age is finding out how cavalier everyone was in those early days .... Multiple Exposures provides as balanced and well written a perspective on these matters as could possibly be asked for." -Sunday Telegraph (London) "[Multiple Exposures] combines detail and interest in a masterly way ... [it] deserves a wide audience." --- John Dunster, Nature C A T H E R I N E C A U F I E L D is the author of In the Rainforest, also vailable from the University of Chicago Press.
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