DOCTOR AT NAGASAKI
"My First Assignment Was Mercy Killing"
by Masao Shiotsuki
This book is an invaluable firsthand
account of an idealistic young Japanese doctor's harrowing experiences treating
atomic bomb victims immediately after the bombing of Nagasaki on August
9, 1945. The first part of the book recounts the author's grim struggle
to prolong the lives of patients suffering from massive burns, other injuries,
and radiation sickness. The second part includes a number of essays published
in the early 1950s in an attempt to awaken both the Japanese medical community
and the general public to nuclear weapons' terrible medical effects. "A
lasting record of the aftereffects of the atomic bombing." --The
Daily Yomiuri
MASAO SHIOTSUKI, M.D., died in 1979. A neurophysiologist, he was a leading figure in Japan's medical community.
191 pp. 10.9 cm. x 17.4 cm. (softcover)
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