Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy

Mullner, Ross

ISBN 10: 0875532454 / ISBN 13: 9780875532455

Published by Amer Public Health Assn, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy
• Publisher: Amer Public Health Assn
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875532454
• ISBN 13: 9780875532455
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Deadly Glow is the important story of a public health tragedy. It chronicles the lives of young women who worked in radium application plants in the early 1900s painting numerals on instrument and watch dials. From their experience, the harmful effects of radium deposited in the body became known.

The victims suffered from skin ulcerations, tumors and other severe medical symptoms. Physicians were baffled and misdiagnosed their conditions as heart disease and even syphilis. Solving the intriguing mystery of the workers' disabling, yet unknown, disease would be a complex and difficult task requiring brilliant detective work of several investigators. In time, this tragedy would be recognized as the worlds' first mass experience with injury and death caused by exposure to atomic radiation.

This is a compelling story for occupational medicine, health physics, radiation safety and public health workers. But for all people, Deadly Glow will tell the dreadful tale and heroic conclusion of a public health disaster.