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Peaceful Atoms in Japan: Radioisotopes as Shared Technical and Sociopolitical Resources for the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission and the Japanese Scientific Community in the 1950s (2020)

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume: 80
Pages: 101240

DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101240

URI: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369848618301699

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Isotopes Radiation sickness; radiation toxicology; Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) Atomic bomb 20th century, late Japan Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission

This paper is a contribution to the historical understanding of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC), the agency superseded by the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF). In this paper, I discuss the development of the ABCC's Radioisotope Laboratory and examine how local Japanese scientists and American officials each used the project to advance their separate goals and how radioisotopes became a shared resource in the 1950s. I suggest that the needs and desires of the Japanese community, not just those of the ABCC, shaped the ABCC's work in Japan, and their interactions also affected Japanese science and medicine.

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