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["Kenneth Miller" <kmiller@radmail.xray.hmc.psu.edu>]

                       Subject:                               Time:7:45 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          None                                   Date:9/20/95

Dear RADSAFERS,
The November Issue of the Health Physics Journal is one you will not want to
miss. It will be a jumbo issue devoted to the history of radiation usage in
medicine. This issue, our Centennial Issue, contains numerous articles by
outstanding writers who will share with you information that is both
interesting and educational. The table of contents follows. We hope you
especially enjoy this Issue.
Ken Miller, Editor-io-Chief

				HEALTH PHYSICS
				Schedule of Contents
				Volume 69, No. 5,  November 1995

GUEST EDITORIAL
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				Medical Uses of Radiation---
				The First 100 Years in Review
				Kimberlee Kearfott and
				Michael Stabin						

PAPERS
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				X Rays in Diagnostic Radiology
				Edward W. Webster
				
				History and Status of X-Ray Mammography
				William R. Hendee			

				Use of Diagnostic Radionuclides in Medicine
				Paul J. Early
				
				Uses of Therapeutic X Rays in Medicine
				Colin G. Orton

				Use of Therapeutic Radionuclides in Medicine
				Paul J. Early and Edward R. Landa

				One Hundred Years of Medical Diagnostic
				Imaging Technology
				J. Anthony Seibert
				
				History of Medical Radionuclide Production
				R. D. Ice
				
				


				Radiation Monitoring with Reference to the
				Medical Environment
				Jean St. Germain
				
				History of the Shielding of Diagnostic
				X-Ray Facilities
				Benjamin  R. Archer
				
				A History of Radiation Shielding of X-Ray
				Therapy Rooms
				Patton H. McGinley and Marc S. Miner

				A History of Medical Internal Dosimetry
				Audrey T. S. Stelson, Evelyn E. Watson,
				and Roger Cloutier

				History of the Medical Uses of Radiation:
				Regulatory and Voluntary Standards of
				Protection
				Allen Brodsky, Ronald L. Kathren, and
				Charles A. Willis


				History of Standards, Certifications, and
				Licensure in Medical Health Physics
				Stewart C. Bushong

				

				Radiation Protection and Medical Practice with
				Special Reference to Health Physicists and the
				Health Physics Society
				J. Newell Stannard and Ronald L. Kathren

				
				
				
				
				

SOFTWARE REVIEW
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				INTERLINE
				Reviewed by Steven J. Maheras

				HIGHWAY
				Reviewed by Steven J. Maheras

BOOK REVIEWS
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				Nuclear Power from Underseas to Outer Space
				Reviewed by Ralph E. Lapp

				Calibration of Dosimeters Used in Radiotherapy
				James Smathers

OTHER CONTENT
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				News and Notices

				New Products
			
				Instructions for Submission of New Product 				Announcements

				Instructions to Contributors

				Health Physics Society Prospectus

				Health Physics Society Affiliate Members

				Advertisers Guide

				Advertisers Index

				Up and Coming


On the cover: Chest x ray of a three and one half year old child with coin in
esophagus, June 1897. See article by Edward W. Webster for more details!