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, GraduateSchool 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: [email protected]) or Aya Homei (Tel:
+44-(0)12…, ext. 237, E-mail: [email protected]) in advance if you
wish to attend.