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J N Stannard

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PubMed1995

Radiation protection and medical practice with special reference to health physicists and the Health Physics Society.

This paper broadly examines the historical development of radiation protection in medical practice through an examination of the interactions of those concerned with radiation protection and medical practice with emphasis on the last half century and on the role played by health physicists and the Health Physics Society. Included is a brief discussion of the relevant activities of various federal agencies and other organizations including the Atomic Energy Commission and successors and the U.S. Public Health Service; the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements and International Commission on Radiological Protection; and the Health Physics Society, American Board of Health Physics, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Society of Nuclear Medicine, and Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors and related scientific and professional bodies.

Government Agencies↗
PubMed1983

Some historical highlights and portents for the future of biomedical research on radium and the actinides.

Radiobiological research on the actinide elements has been a continuum since the first cryptic report by Hamilton at Berkeley, California, in February 1944. Yet certain landmarks in the work, certain people and certain organizations were responsible for the equivalent of quantum jumps in our concepts and understanding. This paper will review very briefly a few of these. Among them will be the realization of the biochemical and consequent biological differences between plutonium and radium, the first demonstration of carcinogenicity of the actinides, their behavior in bone, their relative toxicity, carcinogenesis after inhalation, the genesis of the "king-size" experiments to investigate their long-term effects, "hot particles" in lung, highlights of research with the transplutonics, and several others. To the extent possible, the review will consider not only the research findings, but their bearing on standard setting and the general operations in place at the time. Some of the past and current polemics will be touched upon.

Actinoid Series Elements↗
PubMed1972

Wright H. Langham.

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Health Physics↗
PubMed1966

Some thoughts on interdisciplinary science.

The development of the "new biology" is largely a story of developments in interdisciplinary science. This paper considers a few of these of special interest to the author and active at the University of Rochester; namely, dental research, biophysics, radiation biology, health physics, biomedical engineering, and space biology. Rochester pioneered advanced academic training in radiation biology, a field which, despite some earlier tendencies to become associated with techniques rather than scientific problems, is now clearly a substantive discipline. Using biophysics as an example, the paper points to the futility of trying to define in detail the exact nature of each new "interdisciplinary discipline," yet it also decries the coining of new names without due cause. Health physics and its related field, radiological health, are described as centered on problems of radiation protection and as professional in their overtones. The interrelationships between engineering and bioscience are seen most clearly in biomedical engineering and the growing programs in space biology which require complete cooperation and mutual understanding between engineers and bioscientists for their ultimate success. After presenting some implications for medical libraries, the paper closes with a plea that the developers of new interdisciplinary fields and their powerful tools maintain historical perspective, simplicity of approach, and respect for nature's infinite resourcefulness.

Education, Dental, Graduate↗