From Radiation Effects to Consanguineous Marriages: American Geneticists and Colonial Science in the Atomic Age

In 1947, the US National Academy of Sciences established the Atomic Bomb Casualty Com­mission (ABCC) and sent American scientists to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to investigate the delayed effects of the atomic bombs among survivors. James Neel, medical professor at the University of Michigan, headed the...

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Main Author: Aiko Demirci
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2022-08-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/id/43123/
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