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Physical Description:xii, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. print
Publisher:Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-280) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Ch. 1. Watch Alice Glow: The New Jersey Radium Dialpainters -- Ch. 2. The Unknown God: Radium, Research, and Businesses -- Ch. 3. Something about That Factory: The Dialpainters and the Consumers' League -- Ch. 4. A "Hitherto Unrecognized" Occupational Hazard: The Discovery of Radium Poisoning -- Ch. 5. A David Fighting the Goliath of Industrialism: Compensation in New Jersey and Connecticut -- Ch. 6. Is That Watch Fad Worth the Price? Industrial Radium Poisoning and Federal Courts and Agencies -- Ch. 7. Gimme a Gamma: Iatrogenic Radium Poisoning -- Ch. 8. We Slapped Radium Around Like Cake Frosting: Dialpainting in Illinois.
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