Effects of atomic radiation: A half-century of studies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This is a notable book. For the first time, a thoroughly experienced scientist has undertaken, as the author says, {open_quotes}to present the atomic bomb survivor story in all its complexity,{close_quotes} and to aid the reader, Prof. Schull has eschewed the use of technical terms. Where this could not be done, he has defined them in the text or the glossary. The task could only have been done by someone like Prof. Schull, who in various capacities has been involved in the Japanese studies since 1949. The book therefore is not a conventional epidemiological monograph. It is addressed to both the professional and nonprofessional reader, and it includes various elements of biology; it deals with history as well as science; and it considers some of its material as in a personal essay. This is an ambitious, difficult and useful undertaking that provides much information; its writing, however, is not always quite direct and incisive.
- OSTI ID:
- 387325
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: From review by Henry I. Kohn, in Radiation Research, Vol. 145, No. 2. (Feb. 1996); PBD: 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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