Radiation threats and your safety : a guide to preparation and response for professionals and community / / Armin Ansari
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| Autore: |
Ansari Armin
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| Titolo: |
Radiation threats and your safety : a guide to preparation and response for professionals and community / / Armin Ansari
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| Pubblicazione: | Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st edition |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.196/9897 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ionizing radiation - Accidents |
| Ionizing radiation - Safety measures | |
| Emergency management | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front cover; Dedication; CONTENTS; PREFACE; THE AUTHOR; Part One: UNDERSTANDING RADIATION; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2. RADIATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE; Chapter 3. RADIATION 101; Part Two: THE IMPACT OF RADIATION; Chapter 4. ACCIDENTAL RADIATION EMERGENCIES; Chapter 5. INTENTIONAL RADIATION EMERGENCIES; Chapter 6. HEALTH EFFECTS OF RADIATION; Chpater 7. ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS OF RADIATION; Chapter 8. PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS OF RADIATION; Part Three: RESPONDING TO RADIATION; Chapter 9. PROTECTING YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY; Chapter 10. PREPARING YOUR FAMILY EMERGENCY PLAN |
| Chapter 11. MEDICAL RESPONSE TO RADIATION EMERGENCIESChapter 12. RADIATION DRUGS; Chapter 13. GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO RADIATION EMERGENCIES; Chapter 14. RESPONDING AS PROFESSIONALS; Chapter 15. RESPONDING AS A COMMUNITY; Part Four: CONCLUSION; Chapter 16. LIVING WITH THE THREAT; GLOSSARY; APPENDIX A: EMERGENCY SUPPLY LIST; APPENDIX B: RADIATION FROM MICROWAVES AND CELLULAR PHONES; APPENDIX C: FOOD IRRADIATION; INDEX; Back cover | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Details protocols for accidental and intentional emergencies such as nuclear explosions and dirty bombs. This book shows how to prepare a family emergency plan, covers medical responses to radiation including radiation drugs, and discusses radiation from microwaves and cellular phones as well as food irradiation. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Radiation threats and your safety |
| ISBN: | 0-429-19296-7 |
| 1-282-30403-8 | |
| 9786612304033 | |
| 1-4200-8362-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778418603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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