Ringworm and Irradiation The Historical Medical and Legal Implications of the Forgotten Epidemic 1st edition by Shifra Shvarts, Siegal Sadetzki 019756898X 9780197568989

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ISBN-10 : 019756898X 

ISBN-13 : 9780197568989

Author :  Shifra Shvarts, Siegal Sadetzki 

Ringworm and Irradiation: The Historical, Medical, and Legal Implications of the Forgotten Epidemic explores the history of the disease and the use of irradiation for the treatment of ringworm, an epidemic that was spread mainly among poor children in countries across the world in the first half of the 20th century.At its peak in the 1940 and 50s, children around the globe were treated with radiation therapy to prevent and eradicate ringworm of the scalp, a treatment that led years later to latent health risk to develop tumors, malignancies, thyroid cancer, brain tumors, and other health effects among the exposed population. The actions taken by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the US Food and Drug Administration to launch a nationwide campaign warning the public, and thus the medical community, about the late health effects of ionizing radiation received in childhood are evidenced in this compilation.

Ringworm and Irradiation: The Historical, Medical, and Legal Implications of the Forgotten Epidemic 1st Table of contents:

1. Ringworm of the scalp: the history of an ancient disease
2. Radiation epilation for tinea capitis: scientific and historical aspects
3. The ringworm children at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris: from medical neglect to biosocial obsession
4. Ringworm: a disease of schools and mass schooling in the United Kingdom
5. The JDC-Joint and OSE campaign for eradication of ringworm in the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and North Africa
6. The ringworm campaign in Serbia (former Yugoslavia) in the 1950s
7. The ringworm campaign in Portugal, 1940–1970: historical review and present evaluation of x-ray–epilated individuals
8. “Deadly Medicine”: Michael Reese Hospital’s Pandora’s box and the campaign to warn the public of the late health effects of ionizing radiation in the United States
9. Healing the children and the nation: the campaign to eradicate ringworm in Israel, 1925–1960
10. “Think before you act”: ringworm research in Israel, 1965–1995
11. The muted voices of the ringworm patients and their families worldwide

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