Analogies that shape the recent history of radiation

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Notes

1 See for example Andrew Ortony, Metaphor and Thought (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993); Georg Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980); Georg Lakoff, Women, Fire, and Other Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1987).

2 For example: Kate Brown, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Angela Creager, Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013); Gabriele Hecht, ‘Nuclear Janitors: Contract Workers at the Fukushima Reactors and Beyond’, The Asia-Pacific Journal 11 (January 14, 2013); Olga Kuchinskaya, The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Effects after Chernobyl (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2014); Matthew Lavine, The First Atomic Age: Scientists, Radiations and the American Public, 1895–1945 (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013).

3 Klervi Leuraud et al., ‘Ionising Radiation and Risk of Death from Leukaemia and Lymphoma in Radiation-monitored Workers (INWORKS): an International Cohort Study’, The Lancet Haematology, 2 (2015), 276–81.

4 Gabriele Hecht (note 2).

5 Mieke Boon, ‘Scientific concepts in the engineering sciences: epistemic tools for creating and intervening with phenomena’, in Scientific concepts and investigative practice, ed. by U. Feest and F. Steinle (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012), pp. 219–43.