Stories
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
- Book extract
A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
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Atomic bomb injuries / edited by the Japanese Preparatory Committee for Le Congrès Mondial des Mèdicins pour l'ʹEtude des Conditions Actuelles de Vie ; chief Editor Nobuo Kusano.
Date: 1953- Books
Medical report on atomic bomb effects / The Medical Section, the Special Committee for the Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb, the National Research Council of Japan.
Gakujutsu Kenkyū Kaigi (Japan). Genshi Bakudan Saigai Chōsa Kenkyū Tokubetsu Iinkai.Date: 1953- Archives and manuscripts
Requests for Reprints: "Mortality experiences of A-bomb survivors", Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 1984, 40 (5), pp.61-62
Date: 1984Reference: PP/AMS/P.18/23Part of: Alice Stewart (1906-2002)- Books
The quantum exodus : Jewish fugitives, the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust / by Gordon Fraser.
Fraser, Gordon, 1943-Date: 2016- Books
Exposure of the American people to Iodine-131 from Nevada nuclear-bomb tests : review of the National Cancer Institute report and public health implications / Committee on Thyroid Screening Related to I-131 Exposure, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, and Committee on Exposure of the American People to I-131 from the Nevada Atomic Bomb Tests, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Scienes, National Research Council.
Date: 1999