Subject: Radioactivity
Creators
Description
Having dealt with the history of uranium mining and reactor catastrophe as the worst of feasible nuclear accidents the author proceeds to discuss the risks from radioactivity. The fact that contact with sources of radioactivity has become an everyday problem has led to a general awareness of the health consequences and presence of radioactivity as a decisive cofactor. The report challenges the trust-worthiness of experts and discusses the possibilities for citizens to offer resistance. Radiation-related diseases cannot be cured without taking political action and here the focus of attention must be shifted from individual cases and the limited availability of medical treatment to long-term preventive measures to be taken on a population-wide basis. This appears indispensable in view of the risks posed by radioactivity. (BBR)
Abstract (German)
Ausgehend von der Geschichte des Uranbergbaus und des Extremfalles einer Reaktorkatastrophe wird ueber die Risiken der Radioaktivitaet berichtet. Das Alltagsproblem des Umgangs mit Strahlenquellen bezieht ueber die Grundlagen eines angemessenen Krankheitsverstaendnisses die Strahlenbelastung als wesentlichen Kofaktor ein. Die Frage der Glaubwuerdigkeit der Experten und die Widerstandsmoeglichkeiten in Buergerinitiativen werden eroertert. Krankheit ist ohne Politik nicht heilbar; erst recht dann nicht, wenn von der individualisierenden Betrachtung des Einzelschicksals und den begrenzten kurativen Moeglichkeiten auf eine erweiterte soziale Perspektive der langfristig-vorbeugenden Krankheitsverhuetung umgeschaltet werden muss. Diese Perspektive ist gerade angesichts des radioaktiven Risikos unabdingbar. (BBR)Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (German)
- Thema: Radioaktivitaet
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Hirzel.
- Imprint Place
- Stuttgart (Germany)
- ISBN
- 3-8047-1172-3
- Imprint Pagination
- 200 p.
- Series
- Edition Universitas. Wege zu einer sozial verpflichteten Medizin.;Reihe 'Medizin und Oekologie'.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 23086250
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; S29: ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- GOVERNMENT POLICIES; HUMAN POPULATIONS; LEADING ABSTRACT; MINING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PATIENTS; PUBLIC OPINION; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION HAZARDS; RADIOACTIVITY; SOCIAL IMPACT; TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS; URANIUM ORES
- Descriptors DEC
- ABSTRACTS; ANIMALS; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; MAMMALS; MAN; MEDICINE; ORES; POPULATIONS; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATES