Chapter 4 Godofredo and Françoise Travel Around the World
This chapter focuses on Françoise, a dummy figure of the upper part of the female human body used for calibrating radiation detectors in laboratories around the world. From spring 1962 to the end of 1965, Godofredo Gómez Crespo, a Spanish physicist employed by the International Atomic Energy Agency,...
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| description | This chapter focuses on Françoise, a dummy figure of the upper part of the female human body used for calibrating radiation detectors in laboratories around the world. From spring 1962 to the end of 1965, Godofredo Gómez Crespo, a Spanish physicist employed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, travelled the world carrying Françoise in a box-like suitcase that also included a number of standard vessels of various sizes and shapes, containing amounts of mock radioiodine. Gómez Crespo’s task was to check the precision of radioiodine uptake tests for quality assurance in in-vivo measurements in several hospital laboratories across the globe. At the time, thyroid uptake tests constituted one of the first diagnostic applications of radioactive tracers, a cutting-edge technique in nuclear medicine. The chapter discusses the unnecessary gendering of physics instrumentation and brings front and centre the legacy of sexism in the nuclear sciences. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1213192025-03-12T19:49:53Z Chapter 4 Godofredo and Françoise Travel Around the World Rentetzi , Maria Gender studies; feminist new materialism; gendered objects; history of science;material culture; technoscience This chapter focuses on Françoise, a dummy figure of the upper part of the female human body used for calibrating radiation detectors in laboratories around the world. From spring 1962 to the end of 1965, Godofredo Gómez Crespo, a Spanish physicist employed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, travelled the world carrying Françoise in a box-like suitcase that also included a number of standard vessels of various sizes and shapes, containing amounts of mock radioiodine. Gómez Crespo’s task was to check the precision of radioiodine uptake tests for quality assurance in in-vivo measurements in several hospital laboratories across the globe. At the time, thyroid uptake tests constituted one of the first diagnostic applications of radioactive tracers, a cutting-edge technique in nuclear medicine. The chapter discusses the unnecessary gendering of physics instrumentation and brings front and centre the legacy of sexism in the nuclear sciences. 2023-11-16T10:11:51Z 2023-11-16T10:11:51Z 2023-11-09T11:05:02Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/79422 9781032459097 9781032459127 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121319 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/79422/1/9781003379225_10.4324_9781003379225-6.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/79422/1/9781003379225_10.4324_9781003379225-6.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/79422/1/9781003379225_10.4324_9781003379225-6.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/ 9781003379225- 6 10.4324/ 9781003379225- 6 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 The Gender of Things 9781032459097 9781032459127 Routledge 19 open access |
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