The Monticello Radiation-Standards Controversy, Health Physics, and the Interplay of Politics with Science in the Context of the Civilian Nuclear Power Debate

这篇论文的项目是一个调查的相互作用的蒙蒂塞洛辐射标准的辩论与健康物理学的专业。 它侧重于了解健康物理学的历史，以及在民用核能辩论的背景下政治与科学相互作用的机制。 通过对蒙蒂塞洛争议对卫生保健人员的概念和职业的未探索的影响的研究，这项研究提供了一个有希望的基础上，阐述一些最突出的论点的社会建设的科学。 这些资金将用于研究蒙蒂塞洛辩论中每个主角所使用的文件，有关健康物理学历史的文件，以及对参加辩论和/或健康物理学会成员的科学家的口头采访。

This dissertation project is an investigation of the interplay of the Monticello radiation-standards debate with the specialty of health physics. It focuses on an understanding of the history of health physics and of the mechanisms by which politics interacted with science in the context of the civilian nuclear power debate. Through the examination of the unexplored impact the Monticello controversy had on health physic's concepts and profession, the study offers a promising basis on which to elaborate some of the most prominent arguments of the social construction of science. The funds will be used to research documents used by each of the protagonist parties in the Monticello debate, on documents pertaining to the history of health physics, and on oral interviews with scientists who participated in the debate and/or were members of the Health Physics Society.