MARC details
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781785786075 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QD181. |
| Item number |
SAN 2020 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Santos, Lucy Jane |
| Relator term |
author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Half lives : |
| Remainder of title |
the unlikely history of radium / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Lucy Jane Santos |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Icon Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2020. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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rdacontent |
| Content type term |
text |
| Content type code |
txt |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Source |
rdamedia |
| Media type term |
unmediated |
| Media type code |
n |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
| Carrier type code |
nc |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-270) and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
<br/>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 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Radium industry |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Radium |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Radium -- Therapeutic use |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Radium |
| General subdivision |
Physiological effect. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Radium. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Radium industry. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Radium |
| General subdivision |
Therapeutic use. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
| Classification part |
181 |
| Item part |
SAN |
| Call number prefix |
QD |
