"The ongoing medical isotope supply crisis is affecting more than Canadians' health. It not only puts at risk our aspirations to nurture a leading edge innovative industry, it severely limits our options to help reduce the burden on future health care budgets. What got us into this mess is a tale of high minded optimism, missed opportunities and bureaucratic bungling. The more important question, however, is: how can we re-establish Canada's prominence, and secure at reasonable cost the potential benefits that medical isotopes will deliver for our future health? Addressed in this collection are provocative essays from some of the world's top experts in nuclear physics and nuclear medicine." "Among the contributors are Canadian nuclear pioneers Frederick Boyd and Albert Driedger as well as Christopher Whipple, chair of the US National Research Council Committee on Medical Isotope Production without Highly Enriched Uranium."--BOOK JACKET.