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Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki free ebook download

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Author(s):	Ran Zwigenberg

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0226826767
Pages:	324	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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How researchers understood the atomic bombs effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

In 1945, researchers on a mission to Hiroshima with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey canvassed survivors of the nuclear attack. This marked the beginning of global effortsby psychiatrists, psychologists, and other social scientiststo tackle the complex ways in which human minds were affected by the advent of the nuclear age. A trans-Pacific research network emerged that produced massive amounts of data about the dropping of the bomb and subsequent nuclear tests in and around the Pacific rim.

Ran Zwigenberg traces these efforts and the ways they were interpreted differently across communities of researchers and victims. He explores how the bombs psychological impact on survivors was understood before we had the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder. In fact, psychological and psychiatric research on Hiroshima and Nagasaki rarely referred to trauma or similar categories. Instead, institutional and political constraintsmost notably the psychological sciences entanglement with Cold War scienceled researchers to concentrate on short-term damage and somatic reactions or even, in some cases, on denial of victims suffering. As a result, very few doctors tried to ameliorate suffering.

But, Zwigenberg argues, it was not only that doctors failed to issue the right diagnosis  the victims experiences also did not necessarily conform to our contemporary expectations. As he shows, the category of trauma should not be used uncritically in a non-Western context. Consequently, this book sets out, first, to understand the historical, cultural, and scientific constraints in which researchers and victims were acting and, second, to explore how suffering was understood in different cultural contexts before PTSD was a category of analysis.
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