Death in Life
Survivors of Hiroshima
By Robert Jay Lifton
With a new preface by the author
606 pp., 6 x 9
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4344-4
Published: November 1991 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-8469-5
Published: January 2012 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-8289-4
Published: January 2012
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Awards & distinctions
1969 National Book Award in Science
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.
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.
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Reviews
"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