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#50 The Radium Girls
Jul 21, 2022 ·
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This week, we’re going all in on body horror and covering one of the nastiest industrial poisoning stories ever. Starting in the 1910’s, radium became a hot consumer product that...
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This week, we’re going all in on body horror and covering one of the nastiest industrial poisoning stories ever. Starting in the 1910’s, radium became a hot consumer product that would eventually kill an untold amount of people. And the worst hit by this poisoning was a group of painters called The Radium Girls.
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SOURCES:
-Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, 2017.
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/pills-potions-and-other-miscellany/nico-clean-tobacco-card.html
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/pills-potions-and-other-miscellany/radithor.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-we-realized-putting-radium-in-everything-was-not-the-answer/273780/
https://www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girls/
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19981011&slug=2777053
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/100698sci-radium.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_seeker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery
https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/88/radium
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-story-americas-19th-century-opiate-addiction-180967673/
https://connecticuthistory.org/waterburys-radium-girls/
https://www.theradiumgirls.com/the-girls
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Mentalillnesstheatre@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/952876465260434/?ref=share
SOURCES:
-Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, 2017.
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/pills-potions-and-other-miscellany/nico-clean-tobacco-card.html
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/pills-potions-and-other-miscellany/radithor.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-we-realized-putting-radium-in-everything-was-not-the-answer/273780/
https://www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girls/
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19981011&slug=2777053
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/100698sci-radium.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_seeker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery
https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/88/radium
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-story-americas-19th-century-opiate-addiction-180967673/
https://connecticuthistory.org/waterburys-radium-girls/
https://www.theradiumgirls.com/the-girls
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