Rowing the Eternal Sea
The Story of a Minamata Fisherman (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15024614 |
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| Authors | Timothy S George (0000-0002-0719-8609), Timothy George (0000-0003-3231-2159, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 461-463 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2003.0064 |
| OpenAlex | W2022248813 |
| Language | EN |
This moving autobiography is not, on the surface, a book about public health. Ogata Masato, born in 1953, is a fisherman who suffers from Minamata disease. His nerve and brain cells were attacked by methyl mercury discharged into the sea from 1932 to 1968 by the Chisso chemical plant in Minamata, Japan. The mercury was concentrated in the food chain and consumed in fish and shellfish by tens of thousands of people around Minamata
Aquatic animal · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biography · Biology · Fish · Fish <Actinopterygii> · Fishery · Geography · Mercury (programming language) · Mercury poisoning · Rowing · Shellfish · Health and Conflict Studies · Historical Medical Research and Treatments · History · Japanese History and Culture · Medicine
| Highly cited | No |
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