This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (8)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

II. Methods, Quantitative Measurements, and Analyses of Some Important Factors Influencing the Gonad-Dose

VICTOR H. WITTEN, M.D.; MARION B. SULZBERGER, M.D.; WILLIAM D. STEWART, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1957;76(6):683-693.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Man has now harnessed the atom and is busy finding new ways to apply its enormous energies for constructive and peaceful purposes as well as for destructive wartime uses. It is not only right but essential that there be concern regarding the potential harm that these developments and the ensuing release of radioactive materials may cause the human race unless man keeps busy also developing the necessary precautions and protective measures. All physicians must be concerned not only regarding man's exposures to the fall-out from the atom or hydrogen bombs, but also regarding his exposures to the ionizing radiation from medical x-ray apparatus and from such radioactive materials as radium, Co⁶⁰, I¹³¹, and P³², as used for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

With the increasing applications of atomic energy and the greater use of diagnostic and therapeutic x-radiation and radioactive isotopes it was only . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York; Vancouver, B. C., Canada

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, New York University Post-Graduate Medical School (Dr. Marion B. Sulzberger, Chairman) and the Skin and Cancer Unit of University Hospital. This study was aided by grants from the Harriet Ames and Lita Hazen Trusts and the M. L. Annenberg Foundation.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 28, 1957.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?