Book Details

Title:

Suffering Made Real:American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima


Author:Lindee, M. Susan
Place:Chicago
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Year:1994

Reference:

Lindee, M. Susan. Suffering Made Real:American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima . Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1994.


Categories:

Physical Sciences and Engineering

Languages:

English

Description:

This is the first comprehensive research about the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, established in Japan to study the long-term biomedical effects of radiation on the survivors. The author explains the organization's controversial research program, including its “no-treatment” policy, from its political and cultural aspects. 原爆が被爆者に及ぼした長期の生物医学的影響について調査研究をするため日本に設立された原爆傷害調査委員会 (ABCC) についての包括的研究書。多くの歴史的資料を基に、その組織の全容を明らかにし、政治的、文化的側面から「治療をしない」委員会の方針が、なぜ成立したのかを分析している。