Urban Change and Conflict: An Interdisciplinary Reader

The articles in this reader have been grouped into five sections and together they provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary urban development in industrial societies.  The scope is broader than that of other available urban readers in that it attempts to give balanced coverage not only to intraurban structure but also to intraurban relations and urban societal issues. The role of planning and state intervention in contemporary urban development, given scant attention elsewhere, is also fully discussed.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sage Publications Ltd.

<p>This book combines a wide-ranging theoretical view of accessibility and utilization with empirical experience from a variety of comparable health-care delivery systems - those of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The authors focus on primary health-care provision, but also consider secondary and tertiary facilities. Where previous medical geography texts have dealt with disease ecology, this book provides a comprehensive review of recent geographical research into the health service system and its utilization. The book is clearly structured and well written, enabling students to grasp the essentials of the subject. The skilful use of references will permit more advanced students to follow up the topics in greater detail.</p>

Accessibility and Utilization: Geographical Perspectives on Health Care Delivery

Science & Math

Phillips, David

Joseph, Alun E.

Earth Sciences

A unique comprehensive work on the reference male and female, including data on mass of the various organs of the body, chemical composition of the body and various tissues and physiological data. While still the major source of reference data, this report is supplemented and amended by ICRP Publication 89.

ICRP Publication 23: Reference Man: Anatomical, Physiological and Metabolic Characteristics

Reference

ICRP

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Inhalation of radionuclides leads to problems of spatial distribution of radiation dose within tissues. The variables are considerable: specific activity of the radionuclide and its concentration of radiation emitted, concentration of radiation sources (single relatively active particles versus many particles of low specific activity), radioactive decay, degree of particulate aggregation, cellular interactions and movement of particles within the tissue, solubility, presence of other toxic materials, state of health of the tissue containing the particle, and so forth. The problem is so complex that it has not been feasible to approach all aspects experimentally: therefore specific radiation protection criteria for inhaled particles are continually evaluated as new research is completed.   This report focuses on various types of radionuclides that may be inhaled and deposited in the respiratory tract. One of the primary goals of this ICRP Task Group is to assess specifically the biological implications of inhaled plutonium. Because other transuranics are becoming more abundant, information on americium, curium and einsteinium is included. Data are also included from studies of polonium and of several beta-gamma emitting isotopes.

ICRP Publication 31: Biological Effects of Inhaled Radionuclides (Annals of the ICRP)

Biological Sciences

<p>The first of a series of reports recommending Annual Limits for Intakes (ALI’s) of radionuclides by workers. This report includes the main text for the whole series of Publication 30, and data on twenty one elements having radioisotopes that are of considerable importance in radiological protection. The actual ALI values in ICRP Publication 30 have become obsolete with the newer dosimetry and dose limits of ICRP Publication 60, and at present the dose coefficients in ICRP Publications 68, 69, 71, and 72 should be used to determine ALI’s. However, the vast body of biokinetic information in Publication 30 still forms the basis of much of the calculations underlying those later reports.</p>

ICRP Publication 30: Limits for the Intake of Radionuclides by Workers, Part 1

Physics

ICRP Publication 30: Limits for Intakes of Radionuclides by Workers: Index

This report is intended to guide radiologists and others concerned with diagnostic radiology with regard to the factors that influence radiation doses, and hence radiation risks, from different types of X-ray examination. It supersedes Publication Number 16 on the same subject.

ICRP Publication 34: Protection of the Patient in Diagnostic Radiology

This publication presents biokinetic models and best estimates of biokinetic data for some 120 individual radiopharmaceuticals, giving estimated absorbed doses, including the range of variation to be expected in pathological states, for adults, children and the fetus. Absorbed dose estimates are needed in clinical diagnostic work for judging the risk associated with the use of specific radiopharmaceuticals, both for comparison with the possible benefit of the investigation and to help in giving adequate information to the patient. These estimates provide guidance to ethics committees having to decide upon research projects involving the use of radioactive substances in volunteers who receive no individual benefit from the study. This report, while still an important source document, is supplemented and amended by ICRP Publication 80.

ICRP Publication 53: Radiation Dose to Patients from Radiopharmaceuticals

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

This report investigates data on RBE - the Relative Biological Effectiveness - of various types of radiation to assess whether, for specific tissues, the present dose limits or annual limits of intake, based on Q values, and intended to limit the incidence of stochastic effects, are adequate to prevent deterministic effects. The report addresses the problems of accidental exposures as well as chronic irradiation. Also included is the RBE values for the deterministic effects associated with alpha and beta emitting radionuclides in the lungs with particular reference to nuclides and irradiation times of interest for accidental conditions.

ICRP Publication 58: RBE for Deterministic Effects

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Urban Change and Conflict: An Interdisciplinary Reader

Urban Change and Conflict: An Interdisciplinary Reader

Accessibility and Utilization: Geographical Perspectives on Health Care Delivery

ICRP Publication 23: Reference Man: Anatomical, Physiological and Metabolic Characteristics

ICRP Publication 31: Biological Effects of Inhaled Radionuclides (Annals of the ICRP)

ICRP Publication 30: Limits for the Intake of Radionuclides by Workers, Part 1

ICRP Publication 30: Limits for Intakes of Radionuclides by Workers: Index

ICRP Publication 34: Protection of the Patient in Diagnostic Radiology

ICRP Publication 53: Radiation Dose to Patients from Radiopharmaceuticals

ICRP Publication 58: RBE for Deterministic Effects