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1945–1964 WHO’s Right to Health? (2022)

NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Volume: 30
Issue: 2
Pages: 137-165
Publication date: 2022
Language: English

DOI: 10.1007/s00048-022-00333-y

Publication Date: 2022
Edition Details: Issue Theme: The Politics of Radiation Protection

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Radiation sickness; radiation toxicology; Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) Human rights 20th century World Health Organization (WHO) United States. Atomic Energy Commission

United States Atomic Energy Commission (USAEC) and UN agencies utilized techniques of power and negotiation to implement radiation exposure regulations. USAEC affiliated scientists’ expertise was cultivated while establishing a radiation protection regime based on classified experiments. World Health Organization (WHO) leadership sought to manifest a human right to health, including a right to protection from radiation contamination. The careers of a few technical experts and interagency UN correspondence shows how American risk models of radiation regulation traveled and ultimately inhibited WHO attempts to frame radiation as a public health threat. The USAEC and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) navigated WHO’s way of perceiving radiation with technical experts and bureaucratic and legislative means. This paper shows the underpinning at the UN of competing models of radiation regulation, one state centric and the other, an individual right to health. This narrative provides insights into the nature of the UN’s current conceptualization of radiation regulation and argues for further research into UN, radiation, and human rights history.

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Article Rentetzi, Maria (2022) The Politics of Radiation Protection. NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin. unapi

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