Radiation Exposure of Uranium Miners part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This is the report on the Public Health Service Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer among Uranium Miners. The report is based on a hearing of the 90th Congress regarding radiation exposure of ...

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act: What is Fair? part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article addresses the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). Topics include the 1990 RECA, RECA criteria, exposure data, medical conditions and exposure thresholds, smoking, experience with ...

Memories Come To Us In the Rain and the Wind part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book contains 25 oral histories from Navajo uranium miners and their families. Their hope was to gain compensation for the great loss in death and illness brought about by mining uranium, with ...

Lung Cancer Among Navajo Uranium Miners part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This Chest journal article address lung cancer among Navajo uranium miners, focusing on men who were admitted to the hospital from February 1965 to May 1979. Topics include cumulative radon exposure, ...

Mortality Among Navajo Uranium Miners part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This American Journal of Public Health article attempts to update mortality risks for Navajo uranium miners. Lung cancer, tuberculosis, pneumoconioses and other respiratory diseases are addressed ...

Navajo Birth Outcomes in the Shiprock Uranium Mining Area part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The role of environmental radiation in the etiology of birth defects, stillbirths, and other adverse outcomes of pregnancy was evaluated for 13,329 Navajos born at the Public Health Service/Indian ...

Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Are we producing too many PhDs? Does the current graduate education system adequately prepare science and engineering students for today's marketplace? How do foreign students enter the picture? What ...

BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Biological sciences have been revolutionized, not only in the way research is conducted but also in how research findings are communicated among professionals and to the public. Yet, the ...

Basic Research Opportunities in Earth Sciences part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Basic Research Opportunities in Earth Science identifies areas of high-priority research within the purview of the Earth Science Division of the National Science Foundation, assesses ...

Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public Health part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This reference volume emphasizes the interrelationships of geological processes to the health and diseases of humans and animals. It helps explain the geologic origins and flow of toxic elements in ...