Research Catalog

Title

Death in life : survivors of Hiroshima / Robert Jay Lifton.

Author

Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1991.

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Details

Description

xii, 594 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In Japan, "hibakusha" means "the people affected by the explosion" -- specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, Robert Jay Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. Lifton sees this analysis as providing a last chance to understand -- and be motivated to avoid -- nuclear war. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• 1945
• Nuclear warfare > Psychological aspects
• Adaptation, Psychological
• Nuclear Warfare
• Combat Disorders
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Radiation Injuries
• Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Originally published: New York : Random House, c1967. With new pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 557-576) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hiroshima -- The atomic bomb experience -- Invisible contamination -- "A-bomb disease" -- A-bomb man -- Atomic bomb leaders -- Residual struggles: trust, peace, and mastery -- Perceiving America -- Formulation: self and world -- Creative response: "a-bomb literature" -- Creative response: artistic dilemmas -- The survivor.

ISBN

080784344X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^91050248^

OCLC

• 24065055
• SCSB-12599962

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library