Humankind has harnessed the torrid force of radiation to effect compassionate cure as well as to attain egregious ends. Alas, even when radiation has been applied with benign intentions, there have been ignominious, albeit inadvertent, consequences. Radiation Pathology deals with virtually all of the intended and unintended effects of radiation on the hapless human corpus.

The book is a ready repository of didactic data and would be of value to diagnostic pathologists and radiation oncologists. The emphasis is on pathological—mainly histopathological—alterations. In the beginning is a glossary that might be indispensable for the uninitiated. The earlier sections on physics, radiobiology, genetics, and related basic sciences are exceedingly thorough. The later sections explicitly enumerate the aftermath of radiation in almost every organ, even the ear and the parathyroid!

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