AQS00501 Topics in History of Science

Hiroshima University Syllabus

Japanese

Academic Year 2025Year School/Graduate School School of Integrated Arts and Sciences

Lecture Code AQS00501 Subject Classification Specialized Education

Subject Name Topics in History of Science (科学史の諸問題)

Subject Name
（Katakana）カガクシノショモンダイ

Subject Name in
English Topics in History of Science

Instructor NAKAO MAIKA

Instructor
(Katakana) ナカオ　マイカ

Campus 　 Semester/Term 2nd-Year, Second Semester, 3Term

Days, Periods, and Classrooms (3T) Weds3-4：IAS K204

Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
(More Details) Face-to-face

Lecture

Credits 1.0 Class Hours/Week 2 Language of Instruction E : English

Course Level 2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate

Course Area（Area） 23 : Arts and Humanities

Course Area（Discipline） 08 : History of Science and Technology

Eligible Students

Keywords Atomic bomb, Radiation exposure, compensation, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima

Special Subject for Teacher Education 　 Special Subject 　

Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) Integrated Arts and Sciences
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework.

Integrated Global Studies
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・The knowledge and understanding of the important characteristics and basic theoretical framework of individual academic disciplines.

Class Objectives
/Class Outline In nuclear disasters, there are perpetrators and victims. While the perpetrators have tried hide the health effects of radiation exposure, the victims have fought to reveal the health effects and obtain compensation. In this class, we will focus on the scientific activities regarding such health effects and examine the difficulty of scientific research on human beings, their ethical issues, and the relationship between science and politics on compensation, which is still an ongoing issue.

Class Schedule lesson1: Introduction: Nuclear Scientists
lesson2: Scientists in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
lesson3: Hibakusha
lesson4: Anti Nuclear Movement
lesson5: Global Hibakusha
lesson6: Black Rain
lesson7: Nuclear Compensation
lesson8: Summary
lesson9
lesson10
lesson11
lesson12
lesson13
lesson14
lesson15

Quizzes and reports are scheduled.

Video materials will be used as necessary to deepen understanding.

Text/Reference
Books,etc. Susan Lindee, Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima (University of Chicago Press, 1994); Ran Zwigenberg, Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (University of Chicago Press, 2023); Akiko Naono, "The Origins of ‘Hibakusha’ as a Scientific and Political Classification of the Survivor," Japanese Studies, 39:3 (2019), 333-352. Akiko Naono, "'Ban the Bomb! Redress the Damage!': The History of the Contentious Politics of Atomic Bomb Sufferers in Japan," Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, 6 -2 (2018): 223-246. Robert Jacobs, Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale University Press, 2022).

PC or AV used in
Class,etc. Text, Handouts, Visual Materials, moodle

(More Details)

Learning techniques to be incorporated Discussions, Quizzes/ Quiz format

Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review Advices will be given in each class.

Requirements

Grading Method Evaluate with class participation and report.

Practical Experience

Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it

Message

Other

Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Academic Year	2025Year	School/Graduate School	School of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Lecture Code	AQS00501	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	Topics in History of Science (科学史の諸問題)
Subject Name （Katakana）	カガクシノショモンダイ
Subject Name in English	Topics in History of Science
Instructor	NAKAO MAIKA
Instructor (Katakana)	ナカオ　マイカ
Campus		Semester/Term	2nd-Year, Second Semester, 3Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(3T) Weds3-4：IAS K204
Lesson Style	Lecture	Lesson Style (More Details)	Face-to-face
Lecture
Credits	1.0	Class Hours/Week	2	Language of Instruction	E : English
Course Level	2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate
Course Area（Area）	23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area（Discipline）	08 : History of Science and Technology
Eligible Students
Keywords	Atomic bomb, Radiation exposure, compensation, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Integrated Arts and Sciences （Knowledge and Understanding）・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework. Integrated Global Studies （Knowledge and Understanding）・The knowledge and understanding of the important characteristics and basic theoretical framework of individual academic disciplines.
Class Objectives /Class Outline	In nuclear disasters, there are perpetrators and victims. While the perpetrators have tried hide the health effects of radiation exposure, the victims have fought to reveal the health effects and obtain compensation. In this class, we will focus on the scientific activities regarding such health effects and examine the difficulty of scientific research on human beings, their ethical issues, and the relationship between science and politics on compensation, which is still an ongoing issue.
Class Schedule	lesson1: Introduction: Nuclear Scientists lesson2: Scientists in Hiroshima and Nagasaki lesson3: Hibakusha lesson4: Anti Nuclear Movement lesson5: Global Hibakusha lesson6: Black Rain lesson7: Nuclear Compensation lesson8: Summary lesson9 lesson10 lesson11 lesson12 lesson13 lesson14 lesson15 Quizzes and reports are scheduled. Video materials will be used as necessary to deepen understanding.
Text/Reference Books,etc.	Susan Lindee, Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima (University of Chicago Press, 1994); Ran Zwigenberg, Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (University of Chicago Press, 2023); Akiko Naono, "The Origins of ‘Hibakusha’ as a Scientific and Political Classification of the Survivor," Japanese Studies, 39:3 (2019), 333-352. Akiko Naono, "'Ban the Bomb! Redress the Damage!': The History of the Contentious Politics of Atomic Bomb Sufferers in Japan," Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, 6 -2 (2018): 223-246. Robert Jacobs, Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale University Press, 2022).
PC or AV used in Class,etc.	Text, Handouts, Visual Materials, moodle
(More Details)
Learning techniques to be incorporated	Discussions, Quizzes/ Quiz format
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	Advices will be given in each class.
Requirements
Grading Method	Evaluate with class participation and report.
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message
Other
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes. Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

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