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Medicine & Global Survival

Medicine & Global Survival

Print publication of M&GS was suspended in 2002. Please visit the archives below and look for the [] download icon.

IPPNW's journal, M&GS, is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to the health and environmental consequences of war, weapons of mass destruction, environmental degradation, natural and human-caused disasters, human rights questions, and humanitarian intervention.

Edited by David Rush, MD, M&GS provided a forum for the development of a knowledge base and informed discussion about issues crucial to IPPNW and its members. M&GS has an extensive set of links to Web resources on nuclear weapons and disarmament, chemical and biological weapons, landmines and the global arms trade, health and the global environment, and other issues of concern to IPPNW members.

Medicine and Global Survival

VOLUME 7, NUMBER 2 - FEBRUARY 2002

  • Special Section: Where Do We Go From Here? The Aftermath of September 11
    Douglas Holdstock,MSc, MD, FRCP; Neil Arya, MD; Mary-Wynne Ashford, MD, PhD; Ernesto Kahan MD, MPH; Zia Mian, PhD; Arjun Makhijani, PhD; Rasil Basu, MA, LLB, LLM [PDF]
  • Projected US Casualties and Destruction of US Medical Services From Attacks by Russian Nuclear Forces
    Ira Helfand, MD; Lachlan Forrow, MD; Michael McCally, MD, PhD; Robert K. Musil, MPH, PhD [PDF]
  • Maralinga: The Clean-Up Of a Nuclear Test Site
    Alan Parkinson, BScTech, MScSoc [PDF]
  • Bioterrorism Preparedness: Cooptation of Public Health?
    Victor W. Sidel, MD; Robert M. Gould, MD; Hillel W. Cohen, DrPH [PDF]
  • From Enemy to Peacemaker: The Role of Private Military Companies in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Jesse Selber, MPH, Kebba Jobarteh, MPH [PDF]
  • The Severe Impact of Climate Change on Developing Countries
    Dr. Joachim Gross [PDF]

VOLUME 7, NUMBER 1 - APRIL 2001

  • Why Mistakes Happen Even When the Stakes Are High:
    The Many Dimensions of Human allibility
    Lloyd J. Dumas, PhD [PDF]
  • Japanese Civil Society and U.S.-Japan Security Relations in the 1990s
    Naoki Kamimura, PhD [PDF]
  • Small Arms: A Major Public Health Hazard
    Wendy Cukier, MA, MPH; Antoine Chapdelaine, MD, MPH, FRCS(c) [PDF]
  • Armed Violence
    Robin Coupland, FRCS [PDF]
  • Landmines in Russia and the Former Soviet Union: A Lethal Epidemic
    Roman Dolgov [PDF]

Commentary & Opinion

  • Depleted Uranium Weapons and Acute Post-War Health Effects: An IPPNW Assessment (pgs 1-3 of download)
    International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
  • DU Not A High Priority for Antinuclear Movement (pg4 of download)
    Steve Fetter, PhD; Frank N. von Hippel, PhD
  • Depleted Uranium and the Geneva Conventions (pg 5 of download)
    Gunnar Westberg, MD
    [PDF]

Letter

VOLUME 6, NUMBER 2 - JUNE 2000

Special Communication

Book Reviews

VOLUME 6, NUMBER 1 - AUGUST 1999

Hospitals in War

Commentaries

Update

Local Perspectives
[PDF]

VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2 - OCTOBER 1998

Special Report: The South Asian Bomb

Forum
Should We Continue to Seek Ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty?

Other Articles

Book Reviews

Poem

VOLUME 5, NUMBER 1 - JANUARY 1998

VOLUME 4 - 1997

VOLUME 3 - 1996

[As of January 1996, M&GS suspended quarterly print publication and published new articles entirely on the Internet.]

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 4 - DECEMBER 1995

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 3 - SEPTEMBER 1995

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2 - 1995

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1 - 1995

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 4 - 1994

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 3 - 1994

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2 - 1994

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 - 1994

The PSR Quarterly

VOLUME 3, NUMBER 4 - 1993

  • Population: What Does It Mean to Health?
    J. Joseph Speidel, M.D., M.P.H.
  • Global Climate Change and Human Ecology.
    Tee L. Guidotti, M.D., M.P.H.
  • A New International Order and Its Implications for U.S. Foreign and Defense Policy.
    Robert S. McNamara
  • Sentencing Environmental Offenders.
    Paul A. Chernoff, J.D.
  • Population: A View From the South.
    Angela M. Wakhweya, M.D.
  • Population: The Link Between North and South.
    Hari Sharan, Ph.D.
  • Threats to a Sustainable Future: We Know Enough to Start Changing.
    Andrew St. John, A.I.A.
  • How to Build a House in New England and Take the Environment Into Account: One Family's Experience.
    Ellen Hofheimer Bettmann, Michael Bettmann, M.D.
  • A Proposal to Promote Clean Energy in the Developing World.
    Hari Sharan, PhD

VOLUME 3, NUMBER 3 - 1993

  • The Hanford Data: Issues of Age at Exposure and Dose Recording.
    Alice M. Stewart, M.D. and George W. Kneale, M.D.
    [PDF]
  • Dioxin and Its Effects on Reproductive Systems.
    Claude Hughes, Ph.D., M.D.
  • Medical Education and Global Climate Change: Report of a Third-Year Course.
    Tee L. Guidotti, M.D., M.P.H.
  • Peacekeeping in the Name of Humanity.
    William Lewis, Ph.D.
  • The Effects of Tropical Deforestation on Human Health.
    Roger L. Shapiro, MD

VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2 - 1993

VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1 - 1993

  • On Childhood Lead Poisoning and Social Responsibility.
    Evelyn A. Mauss, Sc.D.
  • Population and Environment: Core Issues for PSR's Agenda on Peace and Security.
    Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Ending the Nuclear Age: The Manhattan Project II.
    Daniel Ellsberg, Ph.D., Robert K. Musil, Ph.D.
  • Farewell to Arms: The Impact of the Arms Race on the Human Condition.
    Victor W. Sidel, M.D.
  • Science, Public Policy, and a Critic's Dilemma.
    Sandra Scarr, Ph.D.
  • The Right to Know in a Troubled and Victimized Society.
    Svetlana Tutorskaya

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 4 - 1992

  • Estimate of the Risk of Leukemia to Residents Exposed to Radiation as a Result of a Nuclear Accident in the Southern Urals.
    Mira M. Kossenko, M.D., Marina O. Degteva, Ph.D., Nelly A. Petrushova, M.D.
  • Anthrax Epizootic in Zimbabwe, 1978-1980: Due to Deliberate Spread?
    Meryl Nass, M.D.
    [PDF]
  • Scientific Integrity and Adequate Health Services: Twin Casualties of the Nuclear Arms Race.
    Bruce Amundson, M.D.
  • Understanding the Health Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Production in the Southern Urals: An Important Beginning.
    Scott Davis, Ph.D.
  • International Arms Trade: A Barrier to Democracy and to Public Health.
    George A. Ellsworth, M.D., Christine K. Cassel, MD

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 3 - 1992

  • Childhood Lead Poisoning: Man-Made and Eradicable.
    Herbert L. Needleman, M.D.
  • Desert Storm? or Thyroid Storm? An Inquiry.
    Herbert L. Abrams, M.D.
  • Cholera and the Environment: An Introduction to Climate Change.
    Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H.
  • Call for Global Environmental Action.
    Gro Harlem Brundtland, M.D., M.P.H.
  • The Landmark Needleman Study of Childhood Lead Poisoning: Scientific and Social Aftermath.
    Paul Mushak, Ph.D.
  • Beyond the Cold War Consensus: Issues for 1992. A Memorandum to the Presidential Candidates.
    Seymour Melman, Ph.D.
  • UNCED: A Conference Report.
    Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H.

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2 - 1992

  • Trends in Soviet and Post-Soviet Psychiatry.
    Lawrence M. Probes, M.D., Vladimir Kouznetsov, M.D., Ph.D., Vladimir Verbitski, M.D., Ph.D., and Vadim Molodyi, M.D.
  • Lead Poisoning Among Children in Katowice, Poland.
    Robert W. Ryder, M.D.
  • Children of Armed Conflict: The Case of 105 Ethiopian Children Repatriated After Extended Stays in a Somali POW Camp.
    Almaz Eshete, Ed.M.
  • Mustard Gas.
    Seth Schonwald, M.D.
  • Further Thoughts on Chernobyl.
    Kai Erikson, Ph.D.
  • Enemies of Utopia.
    Donald B. Luria, M.D.
  • Forsaking Reassurance: A Prescription for Physician Leadership on the Environment.
    Anthony Robbins, M.D., M.P.A.

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1 - 1992

  • Health Care After Chernobyl: Radiation, Scarcity, and Fear.
    Andrew M. Davis, M.D.
  • Gunshot Injuries With Plastic Bullets Treated in a Small Community Hospital in the Gaza Strip.
    Jay J. Schnitzer, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Some Pitfalls in Studies of Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation: The Healthy Dose Effect, Significance Questing, and Exposure Reductionism.
    Gregg S. Wilkinson, Ph.D.
  • Risk and Biological Defense Research.
    Leonard A. Cole, Ph.D.
  • Reverence for Life and Community Solidarity: An International Perspective.
    Jonathan M. Mann, MD

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 4 - 1991

  • Child Survival and Global Sustainability: Malthus Revisted.
    Ronald J. Waldman, M.D., M.P.H.
  • "The World We Have Lost": Western Historiography and Attitudes Toward Death and Bereavement Among Peoples of Pre-Industrial Europe.
    Janelle Greenberg, Ph.D.
  • Difficulties in Verifying the Use of Chemical Weapons and the Implications: Some Brief Case Studies.
    Jan L. Willems, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Nuclear Disarmament.
    Eduard A. Sheverdnadze
  • How German Firms Helped Arm Iraq.
    Joachim Bartelt, Arend Wellmann
  • Humanity at War: The Environmental Price.
    Abdullah Toukan, Ph.D.
  • The Animal Victims of the Gulf War.
    John Loretz

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 3 - 1991

  • Osthofen: The Terrain of Denial.
    Hartmut M. Hanauske-Abel, M.D.
  • Operation Just Cause: A Case Study in Estimation of Casualties After War.
    Paul Wise, M.D., Nancy D. Arnison, J.S., Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D., Jane G. Schaller, M.D.
  • A Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource.
    S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D., Gary Williams, Ph.D.
  • Jimmy Carter Speaks to Physicians.
    Jimmy Carter
  • Needed: A National Program for Disaster Medical Preparedness.
    Leo V. Bosner, Larry S. Jordan

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2 - 1991

  • Nerve Gases.
    Alan H. Lockwood, M.D.
  • Fostering Ecological and Human Health.
    Anthony D. Cortese, Sc.D., Audrey S. Armoudlian
  • Social Choices in the Arms Race.
    Oscar Arias-Sanchez, Ph.D.
  • Global Security: A Role for Health Professionals.
    Andrew Haines, M.D.
  • Quid Est Amor Patriae.
    Victor W. Sidel, M.D.
  • War, Conscientious Objection, and Physicians for Social Responsibility.
    Daniel T. Young. M.D.
  • Why I Serve.
    Edward B. Marsh, M.D.
  • The Obligation to Treat.
    Ira Helfand, M.D.
  • Conscience and Obligation: Physicians and "Just War."
    H. Jack Geiger, MD

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 - 1991

  • The Neutron Bomb.
    Michael McCally, M.D., Ph.D.
  • The Health Effects of Radioactive Fallout on Marshall Islanders: Health Policy Issues of Nuclear Weapons Production.
    Thomas E. Hamilton, M.D., Ph.D.
  • The Labyrinth of Biological Defense.
    Meryl Nass, M.D.
  • Biological Weapons Research and Physicians: Historical and Ethical Analysis.
    Victor W. Sidel, M.D.
  • Death and Numbers: Semmelweis the Statistician.
    Herbert F. Spirer, Ph.D., Louise Spirer
  • Profiles in Responsibility: Alice Stewart
    Christine K. Cassel, MD
    [PDF]
  • Getting to Certainty: The Science and Politics of Climate Change.
    John Loretz