ABSTRACT
The distribution of health services and benefits is very much influenced by political and socioeconomic conditions. There is a strong correlation between production costs and safety in the workplace. For instance, Threshold Limit Values is determined as much by the cost of the implementing technology as they are by the effects of chronic exposure. Similar memorandums were written throughout the years during which the study was supported. For instance, as late as February 11, 1971, Dr. R. D. Moseley, who was then chairman of the Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine for the Atomic Energy Commission, wrote to Glen T. Seaborg, its director, that the study would not produce valid information on low-dose radiation effects. Among the occupations that showed a heightened incidence of cancer were atomic workers, almost all of whom worked at the Hanford plant. Dr. S. Milham’s discovery of heightened cancer rates among Hanford atomic workers thus was not within his major area of interest.
