The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War VG

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ISBN
9780385319546
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385319541
ISBN-13
9780385319546
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1750625

Product Key Features

Book Title
Plutonium Files : America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Ethics, Medical Law & Legislation, Radiation, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Science, Medical, History
Author
Eileen Welsome
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
23.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"A deeply shocking and important exposé... Anyone who cares about America's history, moral health and future should read this book." -- Publishers Weekly "There should have been--and should now be--hundreds of other reporters out there doing what [Welsome] has so brilliantly done here." -- Newsday "A remarkable tale... Welsome doesn't merely report [the] facts. She brings the characters to life, and re-creates settings, dialogue and events." -- The San Diego Union-Tribune "Compelling...[Welsome's] portraits of leading officials are vivid and subtle, wonderfully capturing [their] deep moral ambivalence." -- Los Angeles Times "[An] expansive and valuable account...engrossing." -- The New York Times Book Review, "A deeply shocking and important exposé... Anyone who cares about America's history, moral health and future should read this book." -- Publishers Weekly "There should have been--and should now be--hundreds of other reporters out there doing what [Welsome] has so brilliantly done here." --Newsday "A remarkable tale... Welsome doesn't merely report [the] facts. She brings the characters to life, and re-creates settings, dialogue and events." --The San Diego Union-Tribune "Compelling...[Welsome's] portraits of leading officials are vivid and subtle, wonderfully capturing [their] deep moral ambivalence." --Los Angeles Times "[An] expansive and valuable account...engrossing." --The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Decimal
616.9/897/00973
Synopsis
In a Massachusetts school, seventy-three disabled children were spoon fed radioactive isotopes along with their morning oatmeal....In an upstate New York hospital, an eighteen-year-old woman, believing she was being treated for a pituitary disorder, was injected with plutonium by Manhattan Project doctors....At a Tennessee prenatal clinic, 829 pregnant women were served "vitamin cocktails"--in truth, drinks containing radioactive iron--as part of their prenatal treatmen.... In 1945, the seismic power of atomic energy was already well known to researchers, but the effects of radiation on human beings were not. Fearful that plutonium would cause a cancer epidemic among workers, Manhattan Project doctors embarked on a human experiment that was as chilling as it was closely guarded: the systematic injection of unsuspecting Americans with radioactive plutonium. In this shocking exposé, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Eileen Welsome reveals the unspeakable scientific trials that reduced thousands of American men, women, and even children to nameless specimens with silvery radioactive metal circulating in their veins. Spanning the 1930s to the 1990s, filled with hundreds of newly declassified documents and firsthand interviews, The Plutonium Files traces the behind-the-scenes story of an extraordinary fifty-year cover-up. It illuminates a shadowy chapter in this country's history and gives eloquent voice to the men and women who paid for our atomic energy discoveries with their health--and sometimes their lives.

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