Title Radiation evangelists : technology, therapy, & uncertainty at the turn of the century / Jeffrey Womack.

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Description	1 online resource (222 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Book collections on Project MUSE.
	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Public Health and Health Policy.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Evangelists and Martyrs -- 1. X-Ray Therapy in the Röntgen Rush -- 2. Organizing, Proselytizing, and Professionalizing in the Röntgen Rush -- 3. Professional Combat -- 4. Uncertainty, the Evangelists, and the Cold Cathode Tube -- 5. Treating without Knowing -- 6 Radium Therapy -- 7. Radium as Consumable Energy -- Conclusion: Seen but Not Felt -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary	Radiation Evangelists explores X-ray and radium therapy in the United States and Great Britain during a crucial period of its development, from 1896 to 1925.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Radiotherapy -- History.
	Radiotherapy.
	History.
	X-rays -- Therapeutic use -- History.
	X-rays -- Therapeutic use.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Womack, Jeffrey. Radiation Evangelists : Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2020 9780822946090
ISBN	9780822987437 (electronic book)
	0822987430 (electronic book)
	0822946092
	9780822946090