RE: personrem/personSievert

["Weiner, Ruth" <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

At the risk of carrying this on: we have been using "person-rem" and
"person-sievert" for at least ten years.  Substituting "person-rem" for
"man-rem" is one of the more felicitous ways to take gender connotations out
of the language.  

Clearly only my own opinion.

Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
Sandia National Laboratories 
MS 0718, POB 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
rfweine@sandia.gov


-----Original Message-----
From: Bjorn Cedervall [mailto:bcradsafers@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:24 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: personrem/personSievert


Maybe there should be three kinds of units:
person-, man-, woman-
The relative risks differ at a given age (see
the Gompertz curves in ICRP 60).
Just a personal (man-?) comment... :-)
Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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