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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Kate Moore

Start date: March 1, 2018

Finish date: March 31, 2018

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May 12, 2022 Mitchell Friedman rated it really liked it

Shelves: library, history, published-2017, biography, ebook, nonfiction, medicine, death, popsugar-2022

Tough Read. Grueling. Heartbreaking. But worth reading and certainly worth knowing about. Companies hiding the truth for profits and damn the consequences, it is not like that just became a thing yesterday. This was not a story I was familiar with. And definitely not an enjoyable read. And this was not a detailed look of what happened from all angles. This was the story specifically of a number of the women, mostly starting from when they were teens and how they were poisoned by the company they ...more

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Mar 17, 2023 Alyssa Tuininga rated it really liked it

Shelves: physical-books-i-have, science, nonfiction

Nonfiction memoir of the girls (most aged 14-17) that worked painting clock faces and military dials with uranium paint. The story is infuriating, heartbreaking, and disturbing. Many of these young women died within ten years of their work with radium, long, slow painful deaths. The book talks about what happened to them and their fights for justice and recognition that their illnesses were caused by radium poisoning.

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