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By William J. Schull. 397 pp. New York, John Wiley, 1995. $45. ISBN 0-471-12524-5.

This book discusses the short-term and long-term medical effects of atomic radiation in about 150,000 of the people who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. These people have been the subject of a continuing study conducted by the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission and its successor organization, the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. The book is in one sense a history of the origin, objectives, growth, creative personnel, and contributions to radiobiologic knowledge of these organizations. The detailed evaluation of the medical effects of radiation appropriately occupies most of the book, since the author has been intimately involved . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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