X-ray Protection in American Hospitals. Hamilton, V. In Sarathy, B., Hamilton, V., & Brodie, J. F., editors, Inevitably Toxic, of Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise, pages 23–49. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. ![X-ray Protection in American Hospitals [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex The diagnostic and therapeutic promise of x-rays drew Americans into hospitals at an unprecedented rate in the early twentieth century, and yet the dangers associated with medical x-rays were significant and well known. Anyone walking into an x-ray room—patients, doctors, technicians—risked electrocution from high-voltage power sources, fire from tremendously flammable x-ray film, and even blunt trauma from falling apparatus.¹ When the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) published the first nationally recognized set of guidelines for x-ray protection in 1931,² a significant portion of the pamphlet offered recommendations intending to minimize these electrical and fire hazards. Overall, these recommendations
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title = {X-ray {Protection} in {American} {Hospitals}},
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abstract = {The diagnostic and therapeutic promise of x-rays drew Americans into hospitals at an unprecedented rate in the early twentieth century, and yet the dangers associated with medical x-rays were significant and well known. Anyone walking into an x-ray room—patients, doctors, technicians—risked electrocution from high-voltage power sources, fire from tremendously flammable x-ray film, and even blunt trauma from falling apparatus.¹ When the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) published the first nationally recognized set of guidelines for x-ray protection in 1931,² a significant portion of the pamphlet offered recommendations intending to minimize these electrical and fire hazards. Overall, these recommendations},
urldate = {2021-07-08},
booktitle = {Inevitably {Toxic}},
publisher = {University of Pittsburgh Press},
author = {Hamilton, Vivien},
editor = {Sarathy, Brinda and Hamilton, Vivien and Brodie, Janet Farrell},
year = {2018},
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keywords = {Ignorance in history and philosophy of science and technology - general information, PRINTED (Fonds papier)},
pages = {23--49},
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