(Ebook) Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture by Alison Fields ISBN 9780806164595, 9780806166841, 080616459X, 0806166843

(Ebook) Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture by Alison Fields ISBN 9780806164595, 9780806166841, 080616459X, 0806166843

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After nearly a year of surgical procedures, a major blow occurred withthe death of twenty-six-year-old Tomoko Nakabayashi on the operatingtable. Nakabayashi, who had won a scholarship to a school for fashiondesign, died of cardiac arrest under anesthesia during a minor surgeryto remove a scar from the inside of her arm. A headline read “BeautyHunt Fatal—Hiroshima Maiden Dies in Surgery,” and the whole projectseemed vulnerable to perceived failure. Cousins repeatedly reviewed hisinvolvement with the project and wondered if the whole endeavor wouldcollapse. He was heartened when Masako Kanabe, the next maidenscheduled for surgery after Nakabayashi’s death, appeared at the hospitaland insisted on proceeding as planned.68 The project’s public imagewas upheld when one of the Hiroshima plastic surgeons, Dr. Takahashi,realized that an implication of bungling would destroy the goodwillof the trip. Only through the presence of this Japanese doctor, whoreported on the care and concern of the American doctors, could relationsbe restored.

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