Half lives : the unlikely history of radium (Record no. 297409)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781785786075
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 338.762 148 37
Item number SAN-H
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Santos, Lucy Jane
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Half lives : the unlikely history of radium
Statement of responsibility, etc. By Lucy Jane Santos.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Icon Books,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2020.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 280p.
Other physical details illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note <br/>Intro -- Praise -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates -- About the Author -- Copyright.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Lucy Jane Santos presents the surprising history of radium in everyday life. Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal. Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a desirable item, a present for a queen, a prize in a treasure hunt, a glow-in-the-dark dance costume, to its role as a supposed cure-all in everyday 20th-century life, when medical practitioners and business people (reputable and otherwise) devised ingenious ways of commodifying the new wonder element, and enthusiastic customers welcomed their radioactive wares into their homes. Historian Lucy Jane Santos, herself the proud owner of a formidable collection of radium beauty treatments, delves into the stories of these products and details the gradual downfall and discredit of the radium industry through the eyes of the people who bought, sold and eventually came to fear the once-fetishized substance. She reveals a new history of radium, one in which the stories of those previously dismissed as quacks and fools are brought to life, as part of a unique examination of the interplay between science and popular culture.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Radium industry -- History. Radium -- Therapeutic use -- History.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Book
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 23/09/2021   338.762 148 37 SAN-H DCB3926 24/09/2021 24/09/2021 Book