Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy
Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy Books
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Deadly Glow is the vital tale of a broadcast health tragedy. It chronicles the lives of young women who worked in radium application plants in the early 1900s painting numerals on instrument and watch dials. From their experience, the harmful effects of radium deposited in the body became known.
The victims suffered from skin ulcerations, tumors and other severe medical symptoms. Physicians were baffled and misdiagnosed their conditions as heart disease and even syphilis. Solving the intriguing mystery of the workers’ disabling, yet unknown, disease would be a complex and trying task requiring brilliant detective work of several investigators. In time, this tragedy would be recognized as the worlds’ first mass experience with injury and death caused by exposure to atomic radiation.
This is a compelling tale for occupational medicine, health physics, radiation safety and broadcast health workers. But for all people, Deadly Glow will tell the dreadful tale and heroic conclusion of a broadcast health disaster.
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I hope I am savy enough to place this review in two places for this book and Radium Girls.Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935 Both books are excellent and cover the tragedy of may young women who painted dials with radium paint on glow in the dark watches and dials and guages before there was a excellent appreciation of the hazards. Unfortuntately the companies caught up in the producing glow in the dark watch and other faces refused to accept the hazards much like the tobacco industry refused to accept the hazards of smoking. Only in this case the effects were much more certain and lethal. The book Radium Girl… is really adapted from a college thesis and is rigorously referenced. It is also to some extent dry as one might guess but it is worth even as reading especially if one is interested in industrial health and safety at that period in time. This book, Deadly Glow… is a much simpler read and enjoyable to boot. I’d have to rate it above the former for the average reader. I am a Health Physicist, a Radiation Safety Specialist that is and of course that is why I read both books.
There was in rank in this book which was not mentioned in Radium Girls, one specific is that report has it that the do of painting watch dials ongoing with pricey watches in Switzerland befor it occured in this people.
Rating: 4 / 5
As a teacher of linked health students, I found this book to be helpful in my understanding of radiation hygiene and an aspect of the history of radiation in America. Very informative; would urge to those with an interest in broadcast health history and educator’s of broadcast health and linked health studies.
Rating: 5 / 5
Brilliant and informative book regarding the lax view which
was taken in the early 1900’s regarding radioactivity and worker health and safety issues as well as denial by companies that they had any responsibility for these workers illnesses and deaths in spite of overwhelming proof to the contrary.
Rating: 5 / 5
An outstanding and well-researched work about right history in our fine people. Dr. Mullner was a guest lecturer when I was a student in Chicago in 1990. I went to hear his talk because my grandfather was the physician in Chicago who identified the link between radium and oral cancer among the Elgin workers who painted the watch faces with radium paint. He filled in the entire history for me, and I am more than grateful with his rendition of “the rest of the tale…”
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is a compelling and carefully documented tale of the tragedy of the first widely known victims of the atomic age, the radium dial workers. The author superbly blends scientific fact with vivid characterizations of the emotions and suffering of these workers. Numerous pictures from the early part of the last century of people, places, and artifacts unique to the tale help transport the reader to that period in time. The chapter, “The Ottawa Society of the Living Dead,” focuses on the fate of hundreds of young women in their teens and early twenties who worked at the largest dial-painting establishment. Besides tipping the brushes to add precision to painting the numbers on dials, these women were encouraged to paint common household items and decorate the buttons and belts of their dresses with paint. The deadly consequences of these practices were protracted by years of a myriad of legal battles with the only solace that these battles finally brought broadcast attention to the plight of these women. I heartily concur with the explanation in the Foreword by the former Section Head for Human Radiobiology at Argonne National Laboratory, “Who should read this book?….everybody.”
Rating: 5 / 5