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Book review

Radiation Protection in the Radiologic and Health Sciences. By Marilyn E. Noz and G. Q. MaguireJr., pp. xii + 218, 1979 (Henry Kimpton, London), £8·75. ISBN 0–8121–0657–1

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The aim of this book is excellent—to provide a text for training radiographers, medical physicists and junior radiologists. The result is, however, not to be commended. It is full of half-truths ("the damage produced by ionizing radiation is cumulative") and blinding glimpses of the obvious ("For a unit density material,=1").