Under the radar : cancer and the cold war / Ellen Leopold.

New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2009], ©2009.

xi, 284 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Double jeopardy: cancer and the "cure" -- The court considers informed consent -- The rise of radioactive cobalt -- The cobalt back story: "a little of the Buchenwald touch" -- Behind the fallout controversy: the public, the press, and conflicts of interest -- Cancer and fallout: science by circumvention -- Paradise lost: radiation enters the mainstream -- Subdued by the system: cancer in the courts, compensation, and the changing concept of risk -- Hidden assassin: the individual at fault -- Experiments by other means: clinical trials and the primacy of treatment over prevention.