03636nam 22006734 450 991081724850332120140801105819.00-8223-9630-010.1515/9780822396307(CKB)3710000000204219(OCoLC)891395177(CaPaEBR)ebrary10901891(SSID)ssj0001290476(PQKBManifestationID)12515439(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001290476(PQKBWorkID)11244469(PQKB)11492599(MiAaPQ)EBC3007899(OCoLC)1141662924(MdBmJHUP)muse79746885071664(DE-B1597)554366(DE-B1597)9780822396307(OCoLC)1058780437(EXLCZ)99371000000020421920140801d1995 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrChildren of the atomic bomb an American physician's memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands /James N. Yamazaki with Louis B. FlemingDurham :Duke University Press,1995.1 online resource (201 p.) Asia-Pacific, culture, politics, and societyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8223-1658-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-182).Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Nagasaki -- 2. Born in America -- 3. Pearl Harbor's Impact -- 4. Love and War in 1944 -- 5. Homecoming and the Bomb -- 6. To Japan at Last -- 7. Getting Organized -- 8. The Thunderbolt -- 9. Expanding Research -- 10. Through Guileless Eyes -- 11. Lobbying and Researching -- 12. Emerging Answers -- 13. The Genetic Puzzle -- 14. Farewell in Hiroshima -- "The Peacemaker" -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Notes -- ReferencesChildren 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 Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Nagasaki, Yamazaki had served as a combat surgeon at the Battle of the Bulge where he had been captured and held as a prisoner of war by the Germans. In Japan he was confronted with violence of another dimension - the devastating impact of a nuclear blast and the particularly insidious effects of radiation on children. Yamazaki's story is also one of striking juxtapositions, an account of a Japanese-American's encounter with racism, the story of a man who fought for his country while his parents were interned in a concentration camp in Arkansas.Asia-Pacific.PediatriciansUnited StatesBiographyAtomic bomb victimsMedical careJapanHiroshima-shiAtomic bomb victimsMedical careJapanNagasaki-shiAtomic bomb victimsMedical careMarshall IslandsPediatriciansAtomic bomb victimsMedical careAtomic bomb victimsMedical careAtomic bomb victimsMedical care618.92/9897/0092 B618.9298970092Yamazaki James N1629147Fleming Louis B1629148NDDNDDBOOK9910817248503321Children of the atomic bomb3966687UNINA