LEADER 04374nam 22006375 450 001 9910770262403321 005 20231211213022.0 010 $a9783031426452 010 $a3031426452 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-42645-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31013203 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31013203 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-42645-2 035 $a(OCoLC)1414973987 035 $a(CKB)29350287800041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929350287800041 100 $a20231211d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrom Radio-phobia to Radio-euphoria $eLow Radiation Doses: Safe, Useful, and Necessary /$fby Ilya Obodovskiy 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (389 pages) 225 1 $aPopular Science,$x2626-6121 311 08$aPrint version: Obodovskiy, Ilya From Radio-Phobia to Radio-euphoria Cham : Springer,c2024 9783031426445 327 $aPreface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The world in the era of great discoveries ? X-rays and radioactivity -- Chapter 2. X-ray mania -- Chapter 3. Radio-euphoria -- Chapter 4. From radio-euphoria to radio-phobia -- Chapter 5. The effect of radiation on a living organism, view from outside -- Chapter 6. The effect of radiation on a living organism, view from inside -- Chapter 7. Safety of low radiation doses -- Chapter 8. The usefulness of low radiation doses. Hormesis -- Chapter 9. Special kind of hormesis ? Radon and radon therapy -- Chapter 10. The necessity of low radiation doses. Experiments in underground laboratories -- Chapter 11. What is more dangerous, what is more terrible? -- Conclusion. It's high time to move back: from radio-phobia to radio-euphoria -- Appendix -- List of recommended literature. 330 $aThis book gives a detailed discussion of the initial enthusiasm triggered by the discovery of x-rays and radioactive radiation which later turned into fear and repulsion in a significant part of the global population up to the 21st century. After a historical review, the author discusses the effect of ionizing radiation on living cells, tissues and organisms. He then describes the relationship between the dose of radiation and the effect it produces. He shows how the dose-effect dependence is measured and what models of describing such dependences are used. He also discusses how radiation acts on living organisms: disorders in the genetic apparatus, mutation formation and so on. The book also includes detailed descriptions of the results of numerous health studies of large groups of people who, for one reason or another, were exposed to low doses of ionizing radiation, including those that significantly exceed the natural radiation background. The author concludes that low doses of radiation are safe and can even be beneficial (as known from medical radiation treatment); and also that the natural radiation background is necessary for the normal growth and development and well-being of a living organism. The author also discusses cases and effects of large doses, arguing, however, that dangerous doses of radiation are very unlikely. This book challenges radio-phobia. It not only offers arguments helping to overcome an unreasonable fear but, based on the latest understanding of science, argues to gradually move back, not to the former radio-euphoria, but to a new, conscious attitude towards radiation. 410 0$aPopular Science,$x2626-6121 606 $aNuclear physics 606 $aMedical physics 606 $aSecurity systems 606 $aRadiology 606 $aNuclear Physics 606 $aMedical Physics 606 $aSecurity Science and Technology 606 $aRadiology 615 0$aNuclear physics. 615 0$aMedical physics. 615 0$aSecurity systems. 615 0$aRadiology. 615 14$aNuclear Physics. 615 24$aMedical Physics. 615 24$aSecurity Science and Technology. 615 24$aRadiology. 676 $a539.7 700 $aObodovskiy$b Ilya$01460558 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910770262403321 996 $aFrom Radio-phobia to Radio-euphoria$93660354 997 $aUNINA