Tortured science : health studies, ethics, and nuclear weapons in the United States / compiled and edited by Dianne Quigley, Amy Lowman, and Steve Wing ; Collaborative Initiative for Research Ethics and Environmental Health (CIREEH).

Amityville, New York : Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., [2012]

xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Commentary on Ethics and Community-Based Research: Responsibility, Precaution, and Transparency -- Insignificant and Invisible: The Human Toll of the Hanford Thyroid Disease Study -- A Community's Experience with Environmental Health Research at the Fernald Feed Production Plant -- Democracy and Public Health at Rocky Flats: The Examples of Edward A. Martell and Carl J. Johnson -- A Collaborative Effort to Address the Distribution of Plutonium-Contaminated Sludge in Livermore, California -- Institutional Preferences for Justice, Avoiding Harm, and Expertise in Public Health Policy Making about the Health Consequences of Iodine-131 Nuclear Weapons Testing Fallout -- Ethics of Uranium Mining Research and the Navajo People -- Investigation of an Excess of Malignant Melanoma among Employees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -- The Risks of Making Nuclear Weapons -- Improving Community Research Protections for Communities Exposed to Cold War Nuclear Experiments -- Ethical Review of Radiation Effect Narratives.

Includes bibliographical references and index.