Going for the Burn: Medical Preparedness in Early Cold War America

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 39 (1):48-53 (2011)
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This article looks at the context of research in treating burns at the dawn of the atomic age. Funded by the Army and other defense agencies, burn research increased as concerns over an atomic attack on an American city intensified

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10.1111/j.1748-720x.2011.00548.x

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