Michael R. Edelstein is professor of environmental psychology at Ramapo College in New Jersey and the author of Contaminated Communities. William J. Makofske is professor of environmental physics at Ramapo College and the author of Technology and Global Environmental Issues. Both previously collaborated on Radon and the Environment.

• Chapter 1 Victims of a New ThreatChapter 2 Seeing the Invisible: The Recognition of Natural RadonChapter 3 Tightrope Walking a Federal Response to Geologic RadonChapter 4 Where Did They Hide the Dead Bodies?Chapter 5 The Myth of the Reading ProngChapter 6 The Myth of the Quick FixChapter 7 Passing the BuckChapter 8 Radon Program DecentralizationChapter 9 Marketing Radon Risk to the Wary ConsumerChapter 10 The Radon Private SectorChapter 11 Limits of the MarketChapter 12 Radon as a Non-Regulatory RiskChapter 13 The Societal Implications of Radon ExposureChapter 14 The Science and Technology of Radon

As its subtitle promises, this is a book on radon policy, not radon psychology. Yet in another sense Radon's Deadly Daughters is very much a book about health psychology. How radon came to be framed as it did, and how the way it was framed affected policy and thus public health, are essentially questions of health psychology, questions that Edelstein and Makofske address with authority and insight.