Masazumi Harada, like William Harvey, Rudolf Virchow, and Paul Farmer, is doctor whose words and works deserve our attention.

「差別のあるところに公害が起こる」（原田［2007:123］）といったことだ。十四字である。

“Pollution disasters happen where there is discrimination.” —– Masazumi Harada

「胎盤は毒物を通さない」という当時の常識を覆し、母親の胎内で有機水銀に侵されて起こる胎児性水俣病を突きとめた。

He overturned the common sense notion that “toxic substances do not pass through the placenta” pointed to the existence of congenital victims of Minamata Disease.

戦後最悪の炭鉱事故で、４５８人の命が奪われた６３年の三井三池炭鉱（福岡県大牟田市）の炭じん爆発では、一酸化炭素中毒患者を４０年間追跡し、「後遺症はほぼない」とする教科書の誤りを正した。

Masazumi Harada also made textbook manufacturers correct the statement that, while 458 people died in the Miike mining disaster there were hardly any after-effects.

• http://www.arsvi.com/w/hm06.htm

I've been musing about our world through readings of Minamata with Diaspora* too: – Mining Dangers, Production over Living Rights

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