Roentgens, Rads, and Riddles
Title | Roentgens, Rads, and Riddles PDF eBook |
Author | Milton Friedman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Medical physics |
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The symposium focuses on various aspects of supervoltage as an improved tool for radiotherapy.
Roentgens, Rads and Riddles
Title | Roentgens, Rads and Riddles PDF eBook |
Author | U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
Publisher | |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Medical physics |
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The symposium focuses on various aspects of supervoltage as an improved tool for radiotherapy.
Roentgens, Rads, and Riddles, a Symposium on Supervoltage Radiation Therapy at the Medical Division, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, July 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1956
Title | Roentgens, Rads, and Riddles, a Symposium on Supervoltage Radiation Therapy at the Medical Division, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, July 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1956 PDF eBook |
Author | U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
Publisher | |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 1959 |
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Roentgens, Rads and Riddles
Title | Roentgens, Rads and Riddles PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 528 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Radiotherapy |
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Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market
Title | Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Bridgman Perkins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2017-08-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351978128 |
Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing $100-$300 million each. Critics inside medicine called the widely-publicized proton-center boom "crazy medicine and unsustainable public policy." There was no valid evidence, they claimed, that proton beams were more effective than less costly alternatives. But developers expected insurance to cover their centers’ staggeringly high costs and debts. Was speculation like this new to health care? Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market shows how the radiation therapy specialty in the United States (later called radiation oncology) coevolved with its device industry throughout the twentieth-century. Academic engineers and physicians acquired financing to develop increasingly powerful radiation devices, initiated companies to manufacture the devices competitively, and designed hospital and freestanding procedure units to utilize them. In the process, they incorporated market strategies into medical organization and practice. Although palliative benefits and striking tumor reductions fueled hopes of curing cancer, scientific research all too often found serious patient harm and disappointing beneficial impact on cancer survival. This thoroughly documented and provocative inquiry concludes that public health policy needs to re-evaluate market-driven high-tech medicine and build evidence-based health care systems.
Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation in the Life Sciences
Title | Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation in the Life Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Research, Development, and Radiation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Agriculture |
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Discusses atomic energy applications to agriculture as well as to medical research.
Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation in the Life Sciences
Title | Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation in the Life Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Radiation |
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