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Four years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Schull arrived in Japan to investigate, under the auspices of the newly created Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, genetic damage among children of survivors of the atomic bomb. This book is a moving account of his odyssey in the Orient. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Geneticist Schull's visits to Japan began in 1949 as head of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission's Genetics Program and later included study of consanguineous marriages. Readers expecting (or fearing) detailed coverage of these genetic studies or their results will be disappointed. The book is primarily Schull's reminiscences, with lengthy discourses on Japanese history, culture, and society. Of its type, it is very good; Schull is both informed and articulate. There are, however, many good books of this type, and, given the title, it is difficult to see how its most fitting readers would discover it.
- Kenneth W. Berger, Duke Univ. Lib., Durham, N.C.
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