This book surveys past and present work in radiobiology, deals with the fundamental processes and theories as well as with their implications for radiotherapy, diagnosis and protection against ionising radiations. As with any multi-author work the standard of the contributions varies from the admirably concise and wise statement to mere classification of facts. With one exception, however, the
... [Show full abstract] scientific and critical level of the 15 chapters is very high and no reader can fail to benefit from them. Nine of the articles are in English and six in German.
W. M. Dale has written with admirable clarity and wisdom on the direct and indirect effects of ionising radiations, relating them to clinical applications and pointing out that no model system can “faithfully copy the integrated system of reactions which constitute the orderly sequence in the physiological microcosmos of a cell”.