CHAPTER 9
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DAUGHTER ELEMENTS
By: Jenny, Aaron, Surafel, and Mayson
Question 1 pg.126
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How did the use of “petites Curies”
contribute to the expansion of X-rays
after World War 1?
With the mobile x ray facilities that Marie
Curie created, known as “petites Curies”, it
further generated more advanced mobile
help in later Wars such as in WW2.
 Radiography had developed as a profession
 U.S. radiologists were assigned to each
mobile hospital unit
 Work would consist of causalities, foreign
body localization, and radiotherapy for
infections
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Thomas, Adrian. “Military Radiology: Recognizing the Pioneers and
Landmarks.” AuntMinnieEurope. AuntMinnieEurope, n.d. Web. 2 Feb.
2015.
Question 2 pg.172
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Redniss refers to the Merry Widow
Health Mine as a radon spa that has
positively affected a wide range of the
visitor’s medical conditions . Do radon
spa’s also negatively affect people’s
health?
Too much radon exposure can increase the
risk of lung cancer
 It is found that in epidemiological studies
on thousands of uranium miners, that
breathing in the radon can initiate cancer
(alpha particles would damage the cells
lining the airways)
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Koteles, Gyorgy J. “Radon Risk in Spas?” OMFI. OMFI, n.d. Web. 2
Feb. 2015.
Question 3 pg.172
Branching off from question
2, in Europe, how do they
see radon therapy as
opposed to the U.S.?
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Radon exposure seems to be
more controversial in the U.S.,
while places in Europe consider
it a legitimate biomedical
treatment
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Erickson, Barbara E. “The Therapeutic use of Radon: A Biomedical
Treatment in Europe; An ‘Alternative’ Remedy in the United States.”
NCBI 5, 1 (2007): 48-62. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.
Discussion/Activity
Flip to page 158 and 159
What do you think the relevance of the
distorted skeletons are?
 Who do you think they represent?
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Flip to page 168 & 169
What is the white empty space for?
 Why is Marie’s dead body
glowing?
 Why does the color on page 169
seem to fade to black?
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Flip to page 171
What does this image of Marie
represent?
 Why do you think the text is inside
her body?
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Flip to pages 174 and 175
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Pages 72 and 73 were the other
pages on the noble prize. Is there
any connection between these two
pages?
Flip to pages 184 and 185
What do you think the shapes
represent?
 Why do you think Redniss chose this
to conclude the book?
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Works Cited
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Erickson, Barbara E. “The Therapeutic use of
Radon: A Biomedical Treatment in Europe; An
‘Alternative’ Remedy in the United States.” NCBI
5, 1 (2007): 48-62. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.
Thomas, Adrian. “Military Radiology: Recognizing
the Pioneers and Landmarks.” AuntMinnieEurope.
AuntMinnieEurope, n.d. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.
Koteles, Gyorgy J. “Radon Risk in Spas?” OMFI.
OMFI, n.d. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.