many hibakusha remained adamantly opposed to the ABCC. After her first and only visit to the ABCC clinic, Dō-oh decided never to go again, choosing to forgo potential diagnoses or postmortem analyses of her conditions rather than offer her body, and her suffering, to U.S. data collection. For the next twenty years, the ABCC called and sent letters asking how she was, but she never responded. Only years later did she speak to her family about her reasons. “I refused to cooperate because of the way I was treated,” she explained. “I felt like an object being kept alive for research—and my pride
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