The English philosopher Jeremy Bentham first defined the term "mesology," and its related "social mesology," as being the discipline concerned with the effects upon human beings, as individuals or in society, of meteorological conditions, food and drink, urbanization, sanitation, occupation, domesticity, religion, institutions, laws, and psychological factors. In Radiation and Health, originally published in 1964, William Valentine Mayneord takes this argument one step further by adding "ionizing radiation" to this formidable catalogue. While many people argue that health is a definable and...