Radium Girls: The Glow in the Dark Women Who Changed Everything
No One Saw It Coming
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The Paradox of Radium: Health Benefactor or Danger?
This chapter delves into the early 20th-century allure of radium, highlighting the contrast between its perceived health benefits and the growing recognition of its risks. It examines how businesses capitalized on this paradox, promoting radium as a tonic despite scientific evidence of its dangers.
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