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- Book Title
- Atomic Doctors : Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
- Publication Name
- Atomic Doctors
- Title
- Atomic Doctors
- Subtitle
- Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0674248635
- EAN
- 9780674248632
- ISBN
- 9780674248632
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Genre
- Medical, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Ethics, Military / Nuclear Warfare, Military / World War II, Sociology / General
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 06/08/2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 22.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project. After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the "Little Boy" bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan's instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity. A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674248635
ISBN-13
9780674248632
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2321124766
Product Key Features
Book Title
Atomic Doctors : Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Ethics, Military / Nuclear Warfare, Military / World War II, Sociology / General
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Medical, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
22.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
R725.5.N65 2020
Reviews
In this gripping book, James L. Nolan Jr. narrates...a compelling commentary on not only the ethics of atomic warfare but also the technological experiments of our own age, including artificial intelligence and genetic engineering., A disturbing account of the early years of the atomic bomb, when safety took second place to winning World War II...Haunting...A solid narrative of America's painful introduction to atomic radiation., James Nolan combines a gripping narrative of his grandfather's experiences on the Manhattan Project with illuminating history and a morally sensitive account of medical dilemmas at a time of national crisis. Atomic Doctors is a profound and important book., Usually histories of the nuclear project at Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II dwell on tensions between the military officers overseeing the project and the physicists doing the necessary research. In this striking study, James L. Nolan Jr. looks at the disquieting participation of members of a third profession, medicine...[A] powerful and readable book., An admirable account of the central role of physicians in the Manhattan Project and its aftermath...Nolan's skillful weaving of his grandfather 's story into an account of the pressures exerted on medical ethics by time, place, and circumstance makes for compelling reading., Fascinating and disturbing, Atomic Doctors provides a behind-the-scenes view of the birth of the bomb. It's a crucial addition to the literature of the atomic age. It also raises essential questions about science, society, and the moral compromises made in their service., What did it mean to have a calling as a physician in the making and use of the atomic bomb at the dawn of the nuclear age? James Nolan tells a riveting story of his grandfather and other physicians associated with the Manhattan Project, all of whom were faced with determining their allegiance to the Hippocratic ideal of primum non nocere (First, do no harm) while interacting with both scientists and soldiers intent on creating an atomic weapon that they believed would end the war. Nolan's historical account is also a brilliant sociological assessment of the abiding tensions among these very different constituencies and of a cultural belief in the blessings of technology that continue to define modern life and its discontents., It is hard to imagine a more appropriate author for this impressive work of scholarship and interpretation than [Nolan]...It is an eminently readable history of the early years of the atomic age, presented as a case study that raises broader questions about the relationship between technological determinism and human freedom., James Nolan combines a compelling narrative of his grandfather's experiences on the Manhattan Project with illuminating history and a morally sensitive account of medical dilemmas at a time of national crisis. Atomic Doctors is a profound and important book., An admirable account of the central role of physicians in the Manhattan Project and its aftermath...Nolan's skillful weaving of his grandfather's story into an account of the pressures exerted on medical ethics by time, place, and circumstance makes for compelling reading., Illuminates how Dr. Nolan at Los Alamos and two physician colleagues, Louis Hempelmann and Stafford Warren, dealt with the frightening human effects of nuclear radiation from the bomb. Combining an effective analysis of their efforts with a compelling telling of Dr. Nolan's own story, the book enlarges America's atomic bomb experience as a case study of truly disruptive technology in war and society., This fine-grained and lucidly written account illuminates a little-known aspect of America's nuclear history., Through a many-layered story of people making momentous decisions under the most trying of circumstances, James Nolan plumbs deep questions about science and technology, medicine and war. Atomic Doctors is a special achievement--an important work of scholarship that is also a gripping and moving read., What did it mean to have a calling as a physician in the making and use of the atomic bomb at the dawn of the nuclear age? James Nolan tells a riveting story of his grandfather and other physicians associated with the Manhattan Project, all of whom were faced with determining their allegiance to the Hippocratic ideal of primum non nocere (first, do no harm) while interacting with both scientists and soldiers intent on creating an atomic weapon that they believed would end the war. Nolan's historical account is also a brilliant sociological assessment of the abiding tensions among these very different constituencies and of a cultural belief in the blessings of technology that continue to define modern life and its discontents., As the grandson of the protagonist of the book, James L. Nolan, Jr. crafts a stunning narrative, in which personal accounts and family experiences are successfully amalgamated with academic rigor, situated within a large historical framework...Offer[s] counter-narratives that shed new insight into the dominant narrative of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Lccn
2020-006181
Dewey Decimal
174.2
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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