The evidence

The woman who knew too much

 

There was a time when having x-rays was commonplace, from regular foetal monitoring to fitting shoes, they were used indiscriminately. Alice Stewart fought long and hard to change that. In her detailed work on Leukaemia and Prenatal X-rays, published in the BMJ in 1960, she began a lifelong mission to curtail their use.

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