Article ID: CBB000083758

Illegitimate sufferers: A-bomb victims, medical science, and the government (1999)

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Todeschini, Maya (Author)


Dædalus
Volume: 128 no.2
Issue: 2
Pages: 67-100

Description “In this essay, I examine the ways in which scientists, doctors, and government officials responded to A-bomb victims, and `radiation illness' in particular, and explore the effects of scientific and legal discourses on hibakusha.”


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Authors & Contributors
Lindee, Mary Susan
Hatakeyama, Sumiko
Beatty, John H.
Trevor W. Hambley
Adi Sapir
Zlatkis, A.
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Social Studies of Science
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Journal of the History of Dentistry
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Publishers
Wiley-Liss
University of Chicago Press
Elsevier
Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Harvard University
Concepts
Atomic bomb
Radiation sickness; radiation toxicology; Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS)
Chromosomes
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Peptides
Health risk assessment
People
Freeman, Hans Charles
Mitchell, David Farrar
Schull, William Jackson
Neel, James van Gundia
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Nagasaki (Japan)
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Japan
Australia
Institutions
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission
Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
University of Sydney
California Institute of Technology
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