WORKSHOP, 'Radiation Sickness and the Politics of Nuclear Energy:
Cold-War Science, Technology and Medicine in Japan, USA and Britain'
14-15 August 2009
Needham Research Institute
8 Sylvester Road
Cambridge
CB3 9AF
United Kingdom
PROGRAMME
14 August
9.30-9.45
Registration
9.45-10.00
Welcome
10.00-11.30
Session 1
Chair: Gerald Kutcher
10.00-10.30 Keith Baverstock, Department of Environmental Science, University of Kuopio, Finland
A UK Historical Perspective on Radiation Induced Disease
10.30-11.00
Sue Rabbit Roff, Centre for Medical Education, Dundee Medical School, UK
De-constructing the Historiography of Denial of Government Liability for Health Effects of Participation in UK Atomic and Nuclear Weapons Tests
11.00-11.30: Discussion
11.30-13.30
Lunch
13.30-15.00
Session 2
Chair: Angela N. H. Creager
13.30-14.00
Yukuo Sasamoto, Independent scholar, Tokyo, Japan
Investigations of the Atomic Bomb under the Occupation
14.00-14.30
Emm Barnes, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Fears in Peacetime - American and British Responses to Japanese Studies on Children Exposed to Radiation, 1948-1969
14.30-15.00: Discussion
15.00-15.30
Coffee
15.30-17.00
Session 3
Chair: Masakatsu Yamazaki
15.30-16.00
Jeff Hughes, CHSTM, University of Manchester, UK
Medicalising Nuclear War: The National Health Service and the Bomb 1948-1960
16.00-16.30
Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Oregon State University, USA
Critical Pathways not Taken: Divergent Meanings of Radioactive Contamination in the Nuclear Era
16.30-17.00: Discussion
15 August
9.30-11.00
Session 4
Chair: Emm Barnes
9.30-10.00
Gerald Kutcher, Department of History, Binghamton University, USA
Radiation Sickness in Cold War Cancer Therapy and Military Medicine
10.00-10.30
Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University, USA
Radiation in Sickness and in Health
10.30-11.00: Discussion
11.00-11.30
Coffee
11.30-13.00
Session 5
Chair: Martin Dusinberre
11.30-12.00 Masakatsu Yamazaki, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
The Impact of the Bikini Incident in 1954 on the Japanese Science Community and Nuclear Politics
12.00-12.30 Aya Homei, Needham Research Institute and Department of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
Radiation Sickness and the US-Japan Medical Cooperation in the Lucky Dragon Incident
12.30-13.00: Discussion
13.00-14.30
Lunch
14.30-15.30
Session 6
Chair: Aya Homei
14.30-15.00
Martin Dusinberre, Newcastle University, UK
Hatoko Comes Home: Atomic Energy and Contentious Sites in post-war Japan
15.00-15.30: Discussion
15.30-16.00
Coffee
16.00-16.30
Final discussion and closing remarks
Attendance is free, but please contact Sue Bennett (Tel:
+44-(0)1223-311-545, E-mail: admin@nri.org.uk) or Aya Homei (Tel:
+44-(0)1223-311-545, ext. 237, E-mail: ah567@cam.ac.uk) in advance if
you wish to attend.
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(h/t H-SCI-MED-TECH)
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