Michihiko Hachiya (1903–1980)
Auteur van Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
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Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 (1955) 308 exemplaren
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- Gangbare naam
- Hachiya, Michihiko
- Officiële naam
- 蜂谷, 道彦 (Forme internationale japonais)
- Geboortedatum
- 1903
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1980-04-13
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- male
- Nationaliteit
- Japan
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- Okayama, Chūgoku, Japon
- Woonplaatsen
- Hiroshima, Japan
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- Université d'Okayama (Doctorat, Médecine, 19 38)
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- physician
- Organisaties
- Hiroshima Communications Hospital
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Rumors are flying and facts are scarce since the bomb severed communication between Hiroshima and the rest of the world. The reader feels Dr. Hachiya’s bewilderment as he tries to figure out why patients with seemingly minor injuries were suddenly sickening and dying. The reader knows they’re victims of radiation poisoning, but Dr. Hachiya doesn’t know what the reader knows. He assembles data on the patients who died as well as on patients who recovered, and he discovers that a patient’s proximity to the epicenter of the explosion is predictive of the outcome of their disease.
This is as close to a primary source on the effects of the A-bomb on Hiroshima as you’ll get without being able to read Japanese.… (meer)