Re: State of the Radiation Safety Art (1950 - 1955)

[Mike Bohan <mike.bohan@YALE.EDU>]

Hello Jim & RadSafers,



You might want to see if you can locate a copy of the "Radiation Hygiene 

Handbook" by Hanson Blatz, 1959 by McGraw-Hill, Inc., Library of 

Congress Catalog Number: 59-9985.





It's quite a reference for that time frame.  It consists of 23 Sections, 

  with a forward by Merril Eisenbud and Sections authored by many early 

health and medical physics luminaries, such as K.Z. Morgan, Harald Rossi 

and Harold Wyckoff.  Section 3 "Exposure Standards and Radiation 

Protection Regulations" is authored by Lauriston Taylor & Saul Harris. 

Each section is well referenced which may be of further use in your 

research.



My copy is a first edition that I bought for $0.25/lb at a UCONN Health 

Center Library withdrawn book sale about 20 years ago.  It must have 

cost me a whole $1.25!



You might also see if you can find a copy of "The Basis for Standards 

for Radiation Protection" by Lauriston Taylor in the Journal of the 

Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol 46, pp. 69-77, 1956.  This is but 

one of many references cited in Hanson's book.



Regards,



Mike Bohan, RSO

Yale-New Haven Hospital

Radiological Physics

20 York St. - WWW 204

New Haven, CT  06510

Tele: (203) 688-2950

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email: mike.bohan@yale.edu



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