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Book SynopsisThe U.S.A. s nuclear weapons program has exposed workers and the public to health hazards since World War II. In the 1980s and 1990s, federal health agencies responded to new revelations about these hazards by pouring millions of dollars into research on the health impacts of radiation. In Tortured Science: Health Studies, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons in the United States , community health activists and researchers reflect on the research program for addressing the health effects of nuclear weapons production at Hanford, WA, Rocky Flats, CO, Livermore Labs, CA, and Fernald, OH. The authors describe conflicts of interest, data suppression, technical inadequacies, and other examples of how researchers failed in their social responsibility to the affected human populations. The research program s health studies did not lead to any meaningful follow-up on the major health concerns of community members, nor have they helped communities seek reparations for high radiation exposures that may h
Table of ContentsTribute
Steve Wing
Foreword: Class, Race, and Research on Health Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Production
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Commentary on Ethics and Community-Based Research: Responsibility, Precaution, and Transparency
Sheldon Krimsky
CHAPTER 2
Insignificant and Invisible: The Human Toll of the Hanford Thyroid Disease Study
Trisha Thompson Pritikin
CHAPTER 3
A Community’s Experience with Environmental Health Research at the Fernald Feed Production Plant
Edwa Yocum
CHAPTER 4
Democracy and Public Health at Rocky Flats: The Examples of Edward A. Martell and Carl J. Johnson
LeRoy Moore
CHAPTER 5
A Collaborative Effort to Address the Distribution of Plutonium-Contaminated Sludge in Livermore, California
Patrice Sutton, Jacqueline Cabasso, Tracy Barreau, and Marylia Kelley
CHAPTER 6
Institutional Preferences for Justice, Avoiding Harm, and Expertise in Public Health Policy Making about the Health Consequences of Iodine-131 Nuclear Weapons Testing Fallout
Seth Tuler
CHAPTER 7
Ethics of Uranium Mining Research and the Navajo People
Bindu Pannikar, Esther Yassie, and Doug Brugge
CHAPTER 8
Investigation of an Excess of Malignant Melanoma among Employees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Donald F. Austin
CHAPTER 9
The Risks of Making Nuclear Weapons
Robert Alvarez
CHAPTER 10
Improving Community Research Protections for Communities Exposed to Cold War Nuclear Experiments
Dianne Quigley
CHAPTER 11
Ethical Review of Radiation Effect Narratives
Ernest Wallwork
PostscriptIndex
