Scope of Health Physics
There are many sub-specialties in the field of health physics, including
- Ionising radiation instrumentation and measurement
- Internal dosimetry and external dosimetry
- Radioactive waste management
- Radioactive contamination, decontamination and decommissioning
- Radiological engineering (shielding, holdup, etc.)
- Environmental assessment, radiation monitoring and radon evaluation
- Operational radiation protection/health physics
- Particle accelerator physics
- Radiological emergency response/planning - (e.g., Nuclear Emergency Support Team)
- Industrial uses of radioactive material
- Medical health physics
- Public information and communication involving radioactive materials
- Biological effects/radiation biology
- Radiation standards
- Radiation risk analysis
- Nuclear power
- Radioactive materials and homeland security
- Radiation protection
- Nanotechnology
Read more about this topic: Health Physics
Famous quotes containing the words scope of, scope, health and/or physics:
“Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the worlds activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.”
—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (18421903)
“For it is not the bare words but the scope of the writer that gives the true light, by which any writing is to be interpreted; and they that insist upon single texts, without considering the main design, can derive no thing from them clearly.”
—Thomas Hobbes (15791688)
“To get time for civic work, for exercise, for neighborhood projects, reading or meditation, or just plain time to themselves, mothers need to hold out against the fairly recent but surprisingly entrenched myth that good mothers are constantly with their children. They will have to speak out at last about the demoralizing effect of spending day after day with small children, no matter how much they love them.”
—Wendy Coppedge Sanford. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Womens Health Book Collective, introduction (1978)
“He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. But we would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)