Radiation evangelists : technology, therapy, & uncertainty at the turn of the century / Jeffrey Womack.
Material type: TextPublication details: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (222 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780822987437
- RM847 .R335 2020
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Evangelists and Martyrs -- 1. X-Ray Therapy in the Röntgen Rush -- 2. Organizing, Proselytizing, and Professionalizing in the Röntgen Rush -- 3. Professional Combat -- 4. Uncertainty, the Evangelists, and the Cold Cathode Tube -- 5. Treating without Knowing -- 6 Radium Therapy -- 7. Radium as Consumable Energy -- Conclusion: Seen but Not Felt -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Radiation Evangelists explores X-ray and radium therapy in the United States and Great Britain during a crucial period of its development, from 1896 to 1925.
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