Author Description

Focuses on mechanistically-oriented evaluations of the nature of biological effects of low-level radiation at low doses with particular emphasis in recent years on hormetic effects. Tries to place these findings within a broader societal context. Papers include: legal implications of hormesis; legal implications of hormesis; the hormesis challenge for environmental health regulators; hormesis & the law; regulatory implementation & indeterminate hormesis effects; a regulatory precedent for hormesis; the cost of reducing scientific uncertainty concerning hormesis; & hormesis & the radical moderation of law.