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Radium Girls
by Kate Moore
Ages: 14+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Sourcebooks
ISBN: 978-1-4926-4935-9
Keywords: Medicine, Cancer, Labor Movement
In the early 20th century, hundreds of girls painted watch dials with radium, unaware they were being slowly poisoned. Their suffering and bravery made medical, legal, and labor-relations history. Photographs, back matter.