![]() The women who carried children within them just to deliver a dead child is heartbreaking. The way the women’s bodies fell apart before their eyes was absolutely heartbreaking. This book was fascinating, sad, brave, and so hopeful all at the same time. Will the Radium companies continue to win and brush the results under the rug? Will the multitudes of women eventually help change OSHA standards to what they are today? The Radium companies were doctoring the results so that no one saw what the reports really said. Each time the evidence was that the Radium was perfectly safe and caused no health issues. Both they and their families started to take a stand suing the Radium companies for pain, suffering, medical bills, lost wages and eventually funeral costs. Some growing so fast that they would shatter the bones and break through the skin. Some unlucky girls started to grow tumors in their shoulders, arms, legs, hips, uterus, and back. Eventually, their jaws and skulls would abscess away. They started to limp and have stillborn/ miscarried children. Slowly they began to start having their teeth pulled. They were never told that it was a dangerous substance. The girls would glow as they walked home. The mixing of those compounds created a paste and made the Radium glow allowing them to paint clock faces for the soldiers. They would take their brush, twirl it on their lip, dip it in the Radium mixture and then paint. Each girl was given a dish of powdered Radium and a white dish of gum arabic. Girls made crazy amounts of money that let them dress in furs, the latest styles and have custom ordered dressed made for them. They made Radium make-up, lingerie, jockstraps, butter, milk, and toothpaste. It was used to “cure” cancer as it would eat the cancer cells but then eat the healthy cells as well. When Radium was first created it was used in basically everything. When most of us are gone, any Radium used in WW 1 and WW 2 will still be radioactive and wreaking havoc on anything it touches. I had to find out more about Radium and the destruction it did to these young women who worked with it.įirst off, let’s start with the fact that Radium has a HALF LIFE of 1,600 years! Let that sink in. I immediately went and requested the book. However, while watching PBS one night, I managed to catch the last 15-20 minutes of the program talking about The Radium Girls. I had always skipped over it because it had already been published and I was trying to do good with my turn in dates. I saw this book while browsing NetGalley for something to read. **A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.** Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives… Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the “wonder” substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America’s early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights that will echo for centuries to come. With such a coveted job, these “shining girls” are the luckiest alive - until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.īut the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women’s cries of corruption. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe they light up the night like industrious fireflies. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. The Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. The incredible true story of the women who fought America’s Undark danger ![]() Title: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women ![]()
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