Published September 1, 1977
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Journal article
Hiroshima - the effects of the atom bomb
Description
The author, a nurse, describes her personal impressions of a visit to Hiroshima in 1977 and of the medical and nursing facilities available for atomic bomb survivors in Japan. The findings of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation are briefly summarized. Hiroshima's Red Cross Hospital, recently re-built, cares for some of the survivors. The problems of discrimination against the survivors in employment and in society are discussed. (U.K.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nurs. Mirror
- Journal Volume
- 145
- Journal Issue
- 9
- Series
- Nurs. Mirror.
- Journal Page Range
- 19-22
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 8347080
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Descriptors DEI
- A-BOMB SURVIVORS; DELAYED RADIATION EFFECTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HIROSHIMA; HOSPITALS; MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE; PATIENTS; POST-IRRADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION INJURIES
- Descriptors DEC
- ASIA; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BUILDINGS; DISEASES; INJURIES; JAPAN; MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENTS; MEDICINE; RADIATION EFFECTS; THERAPY