Awa Recovers from the Vapors

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Awa Recovers from the Vapors

• 1967-07 (creation)

Cartoon of Dr. Awa with an unconvincing face stating, "Thank You, Sir. I'm Fine, Sir." The vapors are a vague catch-all phrase. The meaning may differ for this cartoon, but Dr. Awa is standing above an open man-hole after walking past a caution construction sign indicating something maybe mentally draining.

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• English

According to Dr. Howard Hamilton, when Dr. Hamilton was the Chief of Clinical Laboratories Dr. Akio Awa was the assistant to the Chief and head of the Chromosome Section. Dr. Awa and Dr. Hamilton would sit next to each other during many of these staff meetings, and Dr. Awa would create these ‘doodles.’ Dr. Awa would leave his cartoons behind, and Dr. Hamilton reported collecting them afterwards. The ‘originals’ or those that represent the ‘Ur-text’ are found in folder 1, and these were donated in 2002 by Dr. Hamilton. The additional folders 2-4 were donated before 2002, and the cartoons in these folders were called copies to the originals by Dr. Hamilton.

MS066 Howard B. Hamilton, MD papers, Series 6

Cartoon created at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission research center in Hiroshima, Japan between 1967-1970

• Job stress
• Apathy
• Burn out (Psychology)
• Mental health
• Mental fatigue

• Hiroshima, Japan

• Awa, Akio (creation)
• Awa, Akio (Subject)

• cartoons (humorous images)
• paper