Atomic Ironies Life Atomic A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine by Angela N. H. Creager University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2013. 505 pp. $45, £31.50. ISBN 9780226017808. Synthesis.

Author:

Radin Joanna1

Affiliation:

1. The reviewer is at the Program for the History of Science and Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

Abstract

Creager documents how radioisotopes were used in and altered medicine and science in postwar United States.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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