Medical Response to Effects of Ionizing Radiation

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 10
The medical implications of nuclear power plant accidents......Page 12
Setting the scenario;potential hazards of the nuclear fuel cycle. . .......Page 48
The medical management of radiation casualties......Page 62
Medical management of the patient immunosuppressed by ionising radiation......Page 86
The Goinia accident......Page 94
Current radiation risk estimates and implications for the health consequences of Windscale, TMI and Chernobyl accidents......Page 113
The role of biological dosimetry in a radiological accident in the UK .......Page 130
Some priorities in experimental radiobiology......Page 143
Arrangements for dealing with emergencies at civil nuclear installations......Page 162
The National Response Plan and Radioactive Incident Monitoring Network (RIMNET)......Page 192
The role of MAFF following a nuclear accident......Page 206
Medical response to effects of ionising radiation: resources for coping with an event, the role of the Community Physician......Page 235
Local emergency arrangements for radiation accidents......Page 241
Monitoring and assessment of radiation exposure from routine radioactive discharges, and its relevance to the question of disease clusters......Page 252
Studies of leukaemia incidence in Scotland (Abstract)......Page 282
The relevance of population mixing to the aetiology of childhood leukaemia......Page 283
The role of ionising radiation in the aetiology of the leukaemias .........Page 290
A method of detecting spatial clustering of disease......Page 306
Prediction of the effect of small doses: inconsistencies in the epidemiological evidence (Abstract)......Page 320