chapter 1 Fundamentals of Radiation Accidents -- chapter 2 Medical Characteristics of Different Types of Radiation Accidents -- chapter 3 Radiation Sickness Classification -- chapter 4 Acute Radiation Sickness: Underlying Principles and Assessment -- chapter 5 Treatment of Acute Radiation Sickness -- chapter 6 Direct Effects of Radiation on Specific Tissues -- chapter 7 The Safety of Radiation Sources and the Security of Radioactive Materials -- chapter 8 Review of Chinese Nuclear Accidents -- chapter 9 Radiation Accidents in the Former U.S.S.R. -- chapter 10 Radiation Accidents in the United States -- chapter 11 Criticality Accidents -- chapter 12 Medical Aspects of the Accident at Chernobyl -- chapter 13 Accidents at Industrial Irradiation Facilities -- chapter 14 Local Radiation Injury -- chapter 15 Accidental Radiation Injury from Industrial Radiography Sources -- chapter 16 Accident Involving Abandoned Radioactive Sources in Georgia, 1997 -- chapter 17 Localized Irradiation from an Industrial Radiography Source in San Ramon, Peru -- chapter 18 Exposure Analysis and Medical Evaluation of a Low-Energy X-Ray Diffraction Accident -- part 19 Local Irradiation Injury of the Hands with an Electron Beam Machine -- chapter 20 Accidents in Radiation Therapy -- chapter 21 A 2-Year Medical Follow-Up of the Radiotherapy Accident in Costa Rica -- chapter 22 Medical Accidents with Local Injury from Use of Medical Fluoroscopy -- chapter 23 Assessment and Treatment of Internal Contamination: General Principles -- chapter 24 Lifetime Follow-Up of the 1976 Americium Accident Victim -- chapter 25 Two Los Alamos Plutonium Accidents -- chapter 26 Internal Contamination in the Goińia Accident, Brazil, 1987 -- part 27 Fatal Accidental Overdose with Radioactive Gold in Wisconsin, U.S.A. -- chapter 28 Skin Wounds and Burns Contaminated by Radioactive Substances (Metabolism, Decontamination, Tactics, and Techniques of Medical Care) -- chapter 29 Iridium-192 Acid Skin Burn in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. -- chapter 30 Hospital Preparation for Radiation Accidents -- chapter 31 Emergency Room Management of Radiation Accidents -- chapter 32 Application of Radiation Protection Principles to Accident Management -- chapter 33 Monitoring and Epidemiological Follow-Up of People Accidentally Exposed -- chapter 34 Issues Involved in Long-Term Follow-Up of People after Radiation Exposure -- chapter 35 Long-Term Follow-Up after Accidental Exposure to Radioactive Fallout in the Marshall Islands -- chapter 36 Manhattan Project Plutonium Workers at Los Alamos -- chapter 37 Epidemiological Evaluation of Populations Accidentally Exposed Near the Techa River, Russia -- chapter 38 Instrumentation and Physical Dose Assessment in Radiation Accidents -- chapter 39 Evaluation of Neutron Exposure -- chapter 40 The Current Status of Biological Dosimeters -- chapter 41 Psychosocial Effects of Radiation Accidents -- chapter 42 Accidental Radiation Exposure during Pregnancy.