EAN: 9783031426445

SPRINGER PRAXIS BOOKS FROM RADIO-PHOBIA TO RA...

This book gives a detailed discussion of the initial enthusiasm triggered by the discovery of
x-rays and radioactive radiation which later turned into fear and repulsion in a significant
part of the global population up to the 21st century.After a historical review  the author
discusses the effect of ionizing radiation on living cells  tissues and organisms. He then
describes the relationship between the dose of radiation and the effect it produces. He shows
how the dose-effect dependence is measured and what models of describing such dependences are
used. He also discusses how radiation acts on living organisms: disorders in the genetic
apparatus  mutation formation and so on. The book also includes detailed descriptions of the
results of numerous health studies of large groups of people who  for one reason or another 
were exposed to low doses of ionizing radiation  including those that significantly exceed the
natural radiation background. The author concludes that low doses of radiation are safe and can
even be beneficial (as known from medical radiation treatment)  and also that the natural
radiation background is necessary for the normal growth and development and well-being of a
living organism. The author also discusses cases and effects of large doses  arguing  however 
that dangerous doses of radiation are very unlikely. This book challenges radio-phobia. It not
only offers arguments helping to overcome an unreasonable fear but  based on the latest
understanding of science  argues to gradually move back  not to the former radio-euphoria  but
to a new  conscious attitude towards radiation.

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