Jay M. Gould
Encyclopedia
Jay Martin Gould, who died in September 2005, was a statistician and epidemiologist who founded the Radiation and Public Health Project
in 1985. It was Dr. Gould's contention that radiation
from nuclear power plant
s was causing high rates of cancer in surrounding neighborhoods. For more than two decades, Dr. Gould routinely warned that low levels of radiation from nuclear reactors were far more dangerous than commonly believed. But his research was criticized by many in the scientific community as being alarmist.
In 1996, Gould published the book The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors.
Dr. Gould was born in Chicago in 1915 and raised in New York. He earned his bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College
and his doctorate from Columbia University
. He was originally an economist before becoming interested in radiation.
Radiation and Public Health Project
Radiation and Public Health Project is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization founded in 1985 by Jay M. Gould, a statistician and epidemiologist, and Ernest Sternglass...
in 1985. It was Dr. Gould's contention that radiation
Radiation
In physics, radiation is a process in which energetic particles or energetic waves travel through a medium or space. There are two distinct types of radiation; ionizing and non-ionizing...
from nuclear power plant
Nuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors. As in a conventional thermal power station the heat is used to generate steam which drives a steam turbine connected to a generator which produces electricity.Nuclear power plants are usually...
s was causing high rates of cancer in surrounding neighborhoods. For more than two decades, Dr. Gould routinely warned that low levels of radiation from nuclear reactors were far more dangerous than commonly believed. But his research was criticized by many in the scientific community as being alarmist.
In 1996, Gould published the book The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors.
Dr. Gould was born in Chicago in 1915 and raised in New York. He earned his bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...
and his doctorate from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. He was originally an economist before becoming interested in radiation.
Articles
The following is a partial list of articles authored or co-authored by Jay Martin Gould.- Joseph J. Mangano, Jay M. Gould, Ernest J. Sternglass, Janette D. Sherman and William McDonnell (2003). "An unexpected rise in strontium-90 in US deciduous teeth in the 1990s".The Science of The Total Environment, Volume 317, Issues 1-3, 30 December 2003, Pages 37-51. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896970300439X]
Books
The following is a partial list of books authored or co-authored by Jay Martin Gould. Where possible, the date indicated in parentheses is the date of the first edition.- Gould, Jay M. (1966). . http://books.google.com/books?id=Z80eAAAAMAAJ&q=inauthor:Jay+inauthor:M+inauthor:Gould&dq=inauthor:Jay+inauthor:M+inauthor:Gould&hl=fr&ei=TgFVTvuRFurq0gG-qdDGAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ 178 pages.
- Gould, Jay M. & Goldman, Benjamin A. (1990). With Kate Millpointer. http://books.google.com/books?id=Wdc8SgAACAAJ&dq=editions:2Tq-ii76Y5MC&hl=fr&ei=tvtUTqPWAqi80AHSyaXEAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ. 222 pages. Second edition: 1991, xiv + 266 pages. ISBN: 0-941423-35-2, 0-941423-56-5. Amazon indicates a 1993 edition (3rd?) of 300 pages. A page devoted to the co-author Benjamin A. Goldman, indicates that there exist editions of this title in German (1991), Russian (1993) and Japanese (1994). The current German-language Wikipedia article on Jay M. Gould indicates the date of the German-language publication as 1996 under the title Tödliche Täuschung Radioaktivität.
- Gould, Jay M. (1996). [The enemy within: the high cost of living near nuclear reactors : breast cancer, AIDS, low birthweights, and other radiation-induced immune deficiency effects]. 346 pages.