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Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy Paperback – April 1, 1999

by Ross Mullner (Author)
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Deadly Glow is the important story of a public 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 difficult 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 story for occupational medicine, health physics, radiation safety and public health workers. But for all people, Deadly Glow will tell the dreadful tale and heroic conclusion of a public health disaster.

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  1. Print length
    192 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Amer Public Health Assn
  4. Publication date
    April 1, 1999
  5. Dimensions
    7 x 0.5 x 9.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0875532454
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0875532455
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amer Public Health Assn; 1st edition (April 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0875532454
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0875532455
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.5 x 9.75 inches
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muriel smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Terribly sad book which I needed to get because I ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2016
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Terribly sad book which I needed to get because I know the children of the women involved; Had it sent to Arizona and it arrived in great shape and time, is in excellent condition, and brought a lot of knowledge and interest to the recipient. Price was terrific!
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Susan
5.0 out of 5 stars Expensive book
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2014
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Expensive book but well worth the price. Interesting and thought provoking. The beginning of the worlds fascination with glow in the dark radium and poison and death.
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Very interesting book. Seller gave great customer service.
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Peter G. Vernig
4.0 out of 5 stars Deadly Glow and Radium Girls, Women and Industrial Health Reform Comparitive Review
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2007
I hope I am savy enough to put this review in two places for this book and Radium Girls. Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935  Both books are good 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 good appreciation of the hazards. Unfortuntately the companies involved 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 actually adapted from a college thesis and is rigorously referenced. It is also somewhat dry as one might expect but it is worth while reading especially if one is interested in industrial health and safety at that period in time. This book, Deadly Glow... is a much easier 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 information in this book which was not mentioned in Radium Girls, one specific is that apparently the practice of painting watch dials started with expensive watches in Switzerland befor it occured in this country.
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Mr. R. L. Wittkamp
5.0 out of 5 stars Deadly Glow Review
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2006
Excellent 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.
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Denise M. Oleske, Ph.D.
5.0 out of 5 stars Deadly Glow
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2001
This book is a compelling and carefully documented story 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 story 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 public attention to the plight of these women. I heartily concur with the remarks in the Foreword by the former Section Head for Human Radiobiology at Argonne National Laboratory, "Who should read this book?....everybody."
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5.0 out of 5 stars A true story...
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2001
An outstanding and well-researched work about true history in our fine country. 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 story..."
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