The Author: Susanne Bauer holds a Master of Science in Environmental Studies from Berlin Technical University and a Doctor of Public Health from the University of Bielefeld. She has worked as a research associate at the Institute of Health Sciences, Berlin Technical University and at the BfS-Institute for Radiation Hygiene, Munich, where she participated in radiation epidemiology projects, funded by the European Commission and conducted in co-operation with scientists in the former Soviet Union. Her postdoctoral research at Copenhagen University is on the recent history of epidemiology.

• Contents: Ionising Radiation and Cancer – The Perspective of Epidemiology – History of Nuclear Weapons Testing – The Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, Kazakhstan – The Semipalatinsk Historical Cohort Study – A Registry-Based Case-Control Study of Stomach Cancer in the Altai Region – The Assessment of Radiation Risk – Strengths and Limitations of the Epidemiologic Investigations – Public Health Implications and Compensation Programmes.