Radiation Evangelists
Autor Jeffrey Womacken Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 mar 2026
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822968092
ISBN-10: 0822968096
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-10: 0822968096
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
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Recenzii
“Womack provides a portrait of a technology that inspired optimism and enthusiasm, while killing some of its primary proponents. His engaging study effectively conveys the processes whereby medical innovations are often applied before they are understood. It is a story not so much of failure—radiation therapies have been effectively used for more than a century—but of the tangled path to success.” —Isis
“This is a very readable book. There are plenty of quirky characters, absorbing plot-lines, and riddles to solve. Womack takes clear delight in his subject matter, and he is an engaging writer. His real skill, however, and the thing that will make this book invaluable for undergraduate and graduate-level courses alike, is his ability to take a narrow slice of medical history and use it to unpack big, thorny problems such as medical professionalization and specialization, the boundary line between orthodoxy and quackery in nineteenth-century healthcare, and why certain technologies prove popular when others do not. You do not need to have a special interest in radiation therapies to find this book illuminating.” —Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
“Although much has been written about the history of X-ray diagnosis, relatively little has been written about early radiation therapy. This impressive book helps to fill that gap. Drawing from a rich array of sources, Jeffrey Womack shows how early adopters navigated an uncertain world and used their experiences to argue for skepticism in the face of new technology.” —Joel D. Howell, University of Michigan
“This careful and clever study of radiation's evangelists casts a penetrating light on everything from geopolitics to medical professionalization. Womack has found voices from the struggle for acceptance of radiation therapy both familiar and underappreciated, and put them in service to a narrative that will be of great interest to historians of science, medicine, and technology.” —Matthew Lavine, author of The First Atomic Age: Scientists, Radiations and the American Public, 1845–1945
“This is a very readable book. There are plenty of quirky characters, absorbing plot-lines, and riddles to solve. Womack takes clear delight in his subject matter, and he is an engaging writer. His real skill, however, and the thing that will make this book invaluable for undergraduate and graduate-level courses alike, is his ability to take a narrow slice of medical history and use it to unpack big, thorny problems such as medical professionalization and specialization, the boundary line between orthodoxy and quackery in nineteenth-century healthcare, and why certain technologies prove popular when others do not. You do not need to have a special interest in radiation therapies to find this book illuminating.” —Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
“Although much has been written about the history of X-ray diagnosis, relatively little has been written about early radiation therapy. This impressive book helps to fill that gap. Drawing from a rich array of sources, Jeffrey Womack shows how early adopters navigated an uncertain world and used their experiences to argue for skepticism in the face of new technology.” —Joel D. Howell, University of Michigan
“This careful and clever study of radiation's evangelists casts a penetrating light on everything from geopolitics to medical professionalization. Womack has found voices from the struggle for acceptance of radiation therapy both familiar and underappreciated, and put them in service to a narrative that will be of great interest to historians of science, medicine, and technology.” —Matthew Lavine, author of The First Atomic Age: Scientists, Radiations and the American Public, 1845–1945
Notă biografică
Jeffrey Womack earned his PhD in history from the University of Houston in 2016. He regularly collaborates with the College of Physicians of Philadelphia’s Historical Medical Library and Mütter Museum. He resides and teaches in Philadelphia.