Textbooks and Reference Books Realted to Health Physics
Edition (Year)
Author(s)
Usage/
Level
Publisher
Availability
4th (2008)
H. Cember and T.E. Johnson
T/G
McGraw-Hill, NY
amazon.com
2nd (2009)
2nd (2009)
H. Cember and T.E. Johnson
Joseph John Bevelacqua
T/G
T/G
P.S. & E. Press, Silver Spring, MD
Wiley-VCH
amazon.com
amazon.com
2010
2nd (2010)
1st (2008)
Claus Grupen
Joseph John Bevelacqua
Joseph John Bevelacqua
T/G
T/G
T/G
Springer
Wiley-VCH
Wiley-VCH
amazon.com
amazon.com
amazon.com
Health Physics and Radiological Health
4th (2011)
T.E. Johnson and B. Birky
R
Lippincott and Williams & Wilkins
amazon.com
Handbook of Health Physics and Radiological Health
The Atomic Nucleus
Physics for Radiation Protection
3rd (1998)
1982
3rd (2013)
Bernard Shleien
Robley D. Evans
James E. Martin
R
T/G
T/G/UG
Lippincott and Williams & Wilkins
Krieger Pub Co
Wiley-VCH
amazon.com
amazon.com
amazon.com
Radiation Physics
Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection
Modern Physics
Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists
3rd (2007)
3rd (2012)
2nd (2010)
James E. Turner
Kenneth S. Krane
E.B. Podgorsak
T/G
T/G
T/G
Wiley-VCH
Wiley-VCH
Springer
amazon.com
amazon.com
amazon.com
Medical Health Physics
The Physics and Technology of Radiation Therapy
An introduction to Radiation Protection in Medicine
2010
1st (2008)
Patrick N. McDermott and Colin G. Orton
Jamie V. Trapp and Tomas Kron
T/G
T/G
Medical Physics Pub Corp
CRC Press
amazon.com
amazon.com
Radiation Protection in Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology
2016
Richard J. Vetter and Magdalena S. Stoeva
T/G
CRC Press
amazon.com
The Physics of Radiation Therapy
5th (2014)
Faiz M. Khan and John P. Gidding
T/G
Lippincott and Williams & Wilkins
amazon.com
Radiation Therapy Physics
Radiation Protection in the Health Sciences
4th (2016)
2nd (2007)
T. Pawlicki, D. Scanderbeg, G. Starkschall
Marilyn E. Noz and Gerald Q. Maguire Jr.
T/G
T/UG/G
Wiley-Blackwell
World Scientific
amazon.com
amazon.com
2007
Kenneth Mossman
T/G
CRC Press
amazon.com
2nd (2007)
Joseph V. Rodricks
T/G
Cambridge University Press
amazon.com
1st (2008)
2016
Geoffrey C. Kabat
Timothy J. Jorgensen
T/G
T/G
Columbia University Press
Princeton University Press
amazon.com
amazon.com
Title
Health Physics
Introduction to Health Physics
The Health Physics Solutions Manual
Contemporary Health Physics: Problems and Solutions
Introduction to Radiation Protection: Practical Knowledge for Handling
Radioactive Sources
Basic Health Physics: Problems and Solutions
Health Physics in the 21st Century
Health Physics and Radiological Health
Risk Assessment
Radiation Risk Perspective
Calculated Risks: The Toxicity and Human Health Risks of Chemicals in our
Environment
Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of
Epidemiology
Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
T=Textbook, R=Reference,
UG=Undergraduate, G=Graduate
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Textbooks and Reference Books Realted to Health Physics
The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents and Nuclear Weapons
Radiological Assessment: Sources and Doses
1st (1995)
1999
Scott D. Sagan
Richard E. Faw and J. K. Shultis
R/G
T/G/UG
Princeton University Press
American Nuclear Society
amazon.com
amazon.com
Environmental Health Physics
Nuclear Power and its Environmental Effects
Radioecology: Nuclear Energy and the Environment
1980
1982
S. Glasstone
F.W. Whicker and V. Schultz
T/R/G
T/G
American Nuclear Society
CRC Press, Vol. I & II
amazon.com
amazon.com
Environmental Radioactivity from Natural, Industrial and Military Sources
Radiological Risk Assessment and Environmental Analysis
Effects of atomic radiation: A half century of studies from Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
4th (1997)
1st (2008)
Merill Eisonbud and Thomas Gesell
J.E. Till and H.A. Grogan
R/G
R/G
Academic Press
Oxford University Press
amazon.com
amazon.com
1st (1995)
W.J. Schull
R/G
Wiley-Liss
RESRAD Manual Version 6.0
Radioactive Air Sampling Methods
2001
2010
C. Yu, et al.
Editors: Mark L. Maillo & Mark D. Hoover
T/G/R
R/G
Argonne National Laboratory
CRC Press
amazon.com
https://web.evs.anl.go
v/resrad/documents/re
srad6.pdf
amazon.com
Radiation Instrumentation and Detection
Radiation Detection and Measurement
Measurement and Detection of Radiation
Physics & Engineering of Radiaiton Detection
4th (2010)
4th (2015)
2nd (2015)
G.E. Knoll
N. Tsoulfanidis and S. Landsberger
Syed N. Ahmed
T/G
T/G
T/G
John Wiley and Sons
CRC Press
Elsevier
amazon.com
amazon.com
amazon.com
2007
1st (1991)
Michael G. Stabin
Frank H. Attix
T/G
T/G
Springer Science
Wiley-VCH
amazon.com
amazon.com
Radiation Dosimetry
Radiation Protection and Dosimetry; An Introduction to Health Physics
Introduction to Radiological Physics and Radiation Dosimetry
Federal Guidance Reports 11, 12, 13
Radiation Dosimetry: Physical and Biological Aspects
Radiation Shielding
Radiation Shielding
Engineering Compendium on Radiation Shielding: Volume 2: Shielding
Materials
Structural Shielding Design for Medical X-Ray Imaging Facilities
Structural Shielding Design and Evaluation for Megavoltage X- and GammaRay Radiotherapy Facilities
Shielding Techniques for Radiation Oncology Facilities
Principles of Radiation Shielding
T=Textbook, R=Reference,
UG=Undergraduate, G=Graduate
Various
1st (1986)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
C.G. Orton
R
R
USEPA
Springer Science
https://www.epa.gov/r
adiation/federalguidance-report-no-13supporting-materials
amazon.com
2000
J.K. Shultis and R.E. Faw
T/G
American Nuclear Society
amazon.com
1975
Report No. 147
(2004)
Report No. 151
(2005)
2nd (2002)
1983
R.G. Jaeger, et al.
R
Springer
amazon.com
NCRP
T/G/R
NCRP
www.ncrponline.org
NCRP
Patton H. McGinley
A.B. Chilton, J.K. Shultis and R.E. Faw
T/G/R
T/G
T/G
NCRP
Medical Physics Pub Corp
Prentice Hall
www.ncrponline.org
amazon.com
amazon.com
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Textbooks and Reference Books Realted to Health Physics
Nuclear Regulation
Understanding Nuclear Regulations
Michael Cash
R
New Generation Publishing
amazon.com
1984
Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation, 1946-1962
Nuclear Regulation in the U.S.: A Short History (Nuclear Materials and Disaster
2012
Research)
George T. Mazuzan and J. Samuel Walker
R
University of California Press
amazon.com
Emily S. Fisher
R
Nova Science Pub Ince
amazon.com
A Short History of Nuclear Regulation, 1946-2009
Nuclear Energy, Power Plant, and Reactor Sourcebook: A Short History of
Nuclear Regulation, 1946-2009 - Formative Years, Debate, Three Mile Island,
Terrorist Attack and Nuclear Revival
2010
J. Samuel Walker and J. Thomas Wellock
R
Create Space Ind. Pub Platform
amazon.com
2015
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
R
Progressive Management
amazon.com
1997
Robert J. Duffy
R
University Press of Kansas
amazon.com
2008
James Doyle
R
Butterworth-Heinemann
amazon.com
Radiation Safety Procedures and Training for the Radiation Safety Officer
2013
John R. Haygood
T/G/UG
iUniverse LLC
amazon.com
Radiation Biology
Radiation Biophysics
Radiation Biology
2nd (1998)
1968
Edward L. Alpen
Alison P. Casarett
T/G
T/G
Academic Press
Prentice Hall
amazon.com
amazon.com
Radiaobiology for the Radiation Biologist
Essentials of Radiation, Biology and Protection
7th (2012)
2nd (2009)
Eric J. Hall
Steve Forshier
T/G
T/G
Lippincott and Williams & Wilkins
Delmar Cengage Learning
amazon.com
amazon.com
Radiation Protection: A Guide for Scientists, Regulators and Physicians
2002
Jacobs Shapiro
T/UG
Harvard University Press
amazon.com
Radiation Protection Guidance Documents
ICRP Publications
NCRP Publications
Various
Various
ICRP
NCRP
R
R
ICRP
ICRP
www.icrp.org
www.ncrponline.org
Nuclear Politics in America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation
(Studies in Government & Public Policy)
Nuclear Safeguards, Security and Nonproliferation: Achieving Security with
Technology and Policy
2014
Radiation Protection (General)
T=Textbook, R=Reference,
UG=Undergraduate, G=Graduate
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