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UNINA9910780082003321 |
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Walker J. Samuel |
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Permissible dose : a history of radiation protection in the twentieth century / / J. Samuel Walker |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2000] |
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©2001 |
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9786612356292 |
1-282-35629-1 |
0-520-92484-3 |
1-59734-804-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (183 p.) |
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Nuclear energy - Law and legislation - United States - History |
Radiation - Safety measures - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- I. The Discovery of Radiation and Its Hazards -- 2. The Debate over Nuclear Power and Radiation -- 3. The Role of Federal Agencies in Radiation Protection -- 4. New Controversies, New Standards -- 5. The Ambiguities of Radiation Effects -- Essay on Sources -- Index |
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How much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts to ensure radiation safety for nuclear workers and for the general public. The risks of radiation-caused by fallout from nuclear bomb testing, exposure from medical or manufacturing procedures, effluents from nuclear power, or radioactivity from other sources-have aroused more sustained controversy and public fear than any other comparable industrial or environmental hazard. Walker clarifies the entire radiation debate, showing that permissible dose levels are a key to the principles and practices that have prevailed in the field of radiation protection since the 1930's, and to their highly charged political and scientific history as well. |
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UNINA9910790674103321 |
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Autore |
DiSalvo Charles R. <1948-> |
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M.K. Gandhi, attorney at law : the man before the Mahatma / / Charles R. DiSalvo |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2013 |
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1 online resource (387 p.) |
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Lawyers - India |
South Africa Politics and government 1836-1909 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- contents -- Introduction -- ONE. Dispatched to London -- TWO. The Barrister Who Couldn't Speak -- THREE. An Abundant and Regular Supply of Labour -- FOUR. Dada Abdulla's White Elephant -- FIVE. Not a White Barrister -- SIX. Formation Lessons -- SEVEN. Waller's Question -- EIGHT. A Public Man -- NINE. To Maritzburg -- TEN. Moth and Flame -- ELEVEN. Sacrifice -- TWELVE. Transition and the Transvaal -- THIRTEEN. No Bed of Roses -- FOURTEEN. Disobedience -- FIFTEEN. Courthouse to Jailhouse -- SIXTEEN. Malpractice -- SEVENTEEN. Courtroom as Laboratory -- EIGHTEEN. Closing Arguments -- Mohandas K. Gandhi Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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"In 1888, at the age of eighteen, Mohandas Gandhi sets out from his modest home in India. Shy, timid, and soft-spoken, he embarks on what he believes will be a new life abroad. Twenty-seven years later, at the age of forty-five, he returns-this time fearless, impassioned, and ready to lead his country to freedom. What transformed him? The law. M. K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law is the first biography of the Mahatma's early years as a lawyer. It follows Gandhi as he embarks on a personal journey of self-discovery: from his education in Britain, through the failure of his first law practice in India, to his eventual migration to South Africa. Though he found initial success representing wealthy Indian merchants, events on the ground would come to change him. |
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Relentless attacks by the white colonial establishment on Indian civil rights prompted Gandhi to give up his lucrative business in favor of representing the oppressed in court. Gandhi had originally hoped that the South African legal system could be relied upon for justice. But when the courts failed to respond, he had no choice but to shift tactics, developing what would ultimately become his lasting legacy-the philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience. As he took on the most powerful governmental, economic, and political forces of his day, Gandhi transformed himself from a modest civil rights lawyer into a tireless freedom fighter. Relying on never-before-seen archival materials, this book provides the reader with a front-row seat to the dramatic events that would alter Gandhi-and history-forever."-- |
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