Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima

by Robert Jay Lifton

Overview

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, winner of the 1969 National Book Award in Science, Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. He sees this analysis as providing a last chance to understand--and be motivated to avoid--nuclear war. This compassionate treatment is a significant contribution to the atomic age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807882894
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	606
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Robert Jay Lifton is lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima and The Nazi Doctors.

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Introduction: Research and Researcher	3
1	Hiroshima	13
2	The Atomic Bomb Experience	15
3	Invisible Contamination	57
4	"A-Bomb Disease"	103
5	A-Bomb Man	165
6	Atomic Bomb Leaders	209
7	Residual Struggles: Trust, Peace, and Mastery	253
8	Perceiving America	317
9	Formulation: Self and World	367
10	Creative Response: 1) "A-Bomb Literature"	397
11	Creative Response: 2) Artistic Dilemmas	451
12	The Survivor	479
	Appendix	543
	Notes	557
	Index	577
	List of Survivors Quoted	593

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

One of those rare works destined to bear witness and change the lives of those who read it.—Newsweek



A significant contribution to the atomic age.—New York Times



[A] compassionate and important study of the malaise that still pollutes the spirits of many survivors.—Time