Call for Papers- Radiation and Litigation

["Busby, Bruce" <bab1303@hub.doh.wa.gov>]

Hi All,

This is a Call for Abstracts for a special issue of the Health Physics 
Journal.  A web version of this Call is found at: 
http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/call.htm.  Feel free send this out on 
any other mailing lists you happen to be on. Thanks!

 -  Bruce Busby
    Health Physics Journal :  http://www.wwilkins.com/health_physics/

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Call for Papers Dealing with Radiation Protection and Litigation

The editors of Health Physics, the Radiation Protection Journal, plan to 
publish a special issue on litigation and radiation protection.  Special 
editors for this issue will be Bruce Busby, Lawrence Winans, David Wiedis 
and Don Jose.  

Anyone with involvement in litigation of radiation exposures or has 
research interests in the historical, environmental, industrial or social 
impact of radiation related litigation is invited to submit an abstract 
for consideration. Other related areas for possible submission would 
include legal issues of patents, risk management and liability insurance, 
document requirements, expert witnesses and privacy issues.  Deadline for 
the abstracts will be 1 October 1998. 

After review of abstracts for relevance, authors will be invited to 
submit completed manuscripts for consideration in the special issue. 
Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their abstracts by 1 
November and final manuscripts will be due 15 January 1999. All 
manuscripts will be peer reviewed. 

Abstracts should be limited to 500 words. Both abstracts and manuscripts 
should be submitted according to the instructions to contributors that 
appear in the January and July issues of Health Physics or found at the 
Journal's Web site 
(www.wwilkins.com/health_physics/0017-9078aut-sub.html). 

Questions can be sent to Bruce Busby , E-mail: babusby@aol.com, Phone: 
360-236-3222, fax: 360-236-2255.

All abstracts should be mailed to: 
 Kenneth L. Miller, Editor
 Health Physics
 Editorial Office
 M. S. Hershey Medical Center
 500 University Drive
 Hershey, PA 17033  USA

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Bruce A. Busby    -     Radiation Health Physicist
W- bab1303@hub.doh.wa.gov H-babusby@aol.com
Rad Prot. Div. - Dept. of Health - Washington State
7171 Cleanwater Lane, Bldg. 5   Olympia, WA  98504
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