Radiation Effects on Human Beings and Radiological Protection

Radiological protection of patients

Quantitative Inferences concerning the Genetic Effects of Radiation on Human Beings.

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20 Years after Chernobyl – A Radiation Protection Perspective Statement by the German Commission on Radiological Protection

Dose and dose-rate effects of ionizing radiation: a discussion in the light of radiological protection.

The biological effects on humans of low-dose and low-dose-rate exposures to ionizing radiation have always been of major interest. The most recent concept as suggested by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) is to extrapolate existing epidemiological data at high doses and dose rates down to low doses and low dose rates relevant to radiological protection, using the so...

On cloning human beings.

The purpose of this paper is to show that arguments for and against cloning fail to make their case because of one or both of the following reasons: 1) they take for granted customary beliefs and assumptions that are far from being unquestionable; 2) they tend to ignore the context in which human cloning is developed. I will analyze some of the assumptions underlying the main arguments that hav...