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Radiation Risk in Cold War Mexico: Local and Global Networks.
Barahona, Ana.
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  • Barahona A; Department of Evolutionary Biology, School of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico. ana.barahona@ciencias.unam.mx.
NTM ; 30(2): 245-270, 2022 06.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35536307
After WWII, global concerns about the uses of nuclear energy and radiation sources in agriculture, medicine, and industry brought about calls for radiation protection. At the beginning of the 1960s radiation protection involved the identification and measurement of all sources of radiation to which a population was exposed, and the evaluation and assessment of populations in terms of the biological hazard their exposure posed. Mexico was not an exception to this international trend. This paper goes back to the origins of the first studies on the effects of radiation and on radioprotective compounds in the Genetics and Radiobiology Program of the National Commission of Nuclear Energy founded in 1960, at a time when the effects of radiation on living beings and radiation protection demanded the attention of highly localized groups of scientists and the creation of international as well as national institutions, and its connection to dosimetry and radiation protection until the 1990s. This historical reconstruction examines the circulation of knowledge, scientists, and their material and cognitive resources, to show that radiobiology, with dosimetry and radiation protection as cases in point, not only were carried out with high international standards in parallel with international agencies, but also reflected local material needs, including the standardization of new experimental techniques.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Proteção Radiológica / Energia Nuclear Tipo de estudo: Etiology_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies País/Região como assunto: Mexico Idioma: En Revista: NTM Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: México País de publicação: Suíça

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Proteção Radiológica / Energia Nuclear Tipo de estudo: Etiology_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies País/Região como assunto: Mexico Idioma: En Revista: NTM Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: México País de publicação: Suíça