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Children of the atomic bomb : an American physician's memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands / James N. Yamazaki with Louis B. Fleming.

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Children of the Atomic Bomb is Dr. Yamazaki's account of a lifelong effort to understand and document the impact of nuclear explosions on children, particularly the children conceived but not yet born at the time of the explosions. Assigned in 1949 as Physician in Charge of the United States At...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Authors: Yamazaki, James N. (Author), Fleming, Louis B. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Series:Asia-Pacific.
Subjects:
Yamazaki, James N.
Pediatricians > United States > Biography.
Atomic bomb victims > Medical care > Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
Atomic bomb victims > Medical care > Japan > Nagasaki-shi.
Atomic bomb victims > Medical care > Marshall Islands.
Atomic bomb victims > Medical care.
Pediatricians.
Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
Japan > Nagasaki-shi.
Marshall Islands.
United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by John W. Dower
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1. Nagasaki
  • Chapter 2. Born in America
  • Chapter 3. Pearl Harbor's Impact
  • Chapter 4. Love and War in 1944
  • Chapter 5. Homecoming and the Bomb
  • Chapter 6. To Japan at Last
  • Chapter 7. Getting Organized
  • Chapter 8. The Thunderbolt
  • Chapter 9. Expanding Research
  • Chapter 10. Through Guileless Eyes
  • Chapter 11. Lobbying and Researching
  • Chapter 12. Emerging Answers
  • Chapter 13. The Genetic Puzzle
  • Chapter 14. Farewell in Hiroshima
  • ""The Peacemaker""
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Notes.

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