Re: Radiation Biology

[jgbarnes@ix.netcom.com (JAMES BARNES)]

You wrote: 

>
>1.  Just a bit of a gripe.  The development of Health Physics 
>in recent years has tended to concentrate on the "physics" (at 
>the experience of the "health"-->which is predicated on an 
>adequate knowledge of radiation biology!) with relatively less
>concern about the "health" element.

Mike,

I tend to agree.  I'm really tired of articles discussing uranium uptake 
in yet another species of animal.  We are not seeing really cutting edge 
research on the micro-chemical effects of radiation exposure, further 
work in DNA analysis (perhaps along the line of radiation being an 
external influence that shifts the "strange attractor" in a 
nonlinear, chaotic system).

When you think about it, HP is one of the few professions that requires 
a solid grounding in both the physical sciences and the life sciences.  
Maybe today it has started to lose this interdisciplinary nature.

Jim Barnes

(This is me, not Rocketdyne or ETEC)