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Neoplasias Induzidas por Radiação/história , Exposição Ocupacional/história , Doses de Radiação , Radiodermite/história , Reumatologistas/história , Neoplasias Cutâneas/história , Mãos , História do Século XIX , História do Século XX , Humanos , Masculino , Museus/história , Neoplasias Induzidas por Radiação/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Induzidas por Radiação/etiologia , Exposição Ocupacional/efeitos adversos , Exposição Ocupacional/prevenção & controle , Proteção Radiológica/história , Radiodermite/diagnóstico , Radiodermite/etiologia , Medição de Risco , Fatores de Risco , Neoplasias Cutâneas/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Cutâneas/etiologiaRESUMO
This manuscript has two aims. First, I extend the historiography on early American roentgenology that demonstrates that dozens of early adopters knowingly suffered intense pain, mutilation, and death for the sake of the X-ray. The objective is to pinpoint as precisely as possible when and to what extent the roentgenologists knew of the life-threatening risks of X-ray exposure. Second, I articulate a partial explanation for their behavior that is rooted in the social power of remotely anatomizing the living body in fin de siècle American scientific and medical culture.
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Anatomia/história , Neoplasias Induzidas por Radiação/história , Doenças Profissionais/história , Lesões por Radiação/história , Radiodermite/história , Radiografia/história , História do Século XVIII , História do Século XIX , Humanos , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Chronic radiodermatitis was already diagnosed a few years after the discovery of X-rays. Despite the fact that protection should be known to be necessary to avoid radiodermatitis, cases of chronic radiodermatitis still occur. The present case report describes a nurse who endured years of direct hand exposure, leading to chronic radiodermatitis ten years after cessation of exposure.
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Dermatite Ocupacional/etiologia , Dermatoses da Mão/etiologia , Radiodermite/diagnóstico , Doença Crônica , Dermatite Ocupacional/patologia , Feminino , História do Século XX , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Enfermeiras e Enfermeiros , Radiodermite/históriaRESUMO
The discovery of the X-rays in November 1895 confronted medicine with new and undreamed possibilities for diagnosis and therapy. It was welcomed by the professionals with enthusiasm, and soon X-rays were used all around the globe. Gradually, with increasingly powerful equipment, unfavorable side effects were observed. The radiologists themselves were especially concerned, because they were exposed to the rays for hours, and in the beginning without any protection. Their hands were not seldom developing a chronic dermatitis, eventually leading by way of neoplastic transformation to death. Although, as soon as in 1901, the crucial factors of radiation injury and the ways for an effective protection were known, hundreds of the often selfless pioneers of radiology had to die still in the sixties.
