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Book SynopsisThis major new reader has been put together by Physicians for Social Responsibility in Finland, a member of IPPNW, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1985. Comprising 70 articles, specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading authorities in their field, it provides an unusually wide-ranging examination of the interface between warfare and human health and society. In a world where the post-cold war era has proved a profound disappointment as regards any diminution in the incidence of armed conflict, this up-to-date and comprehensive source book will prove invaluable to health professionals and social scientists as well as those active in human rights, peace and development.
Trade Review'When people are in danger, everyone has a duty to speak out. This book is a good example. Here the health profession shows its expertise in a responsible way. I hope their book can help us to change our way of thinking as well as our way of acting.' Kofi Annan, Secretary General, United Nations 'Medical textbooks too often neglect the consequences of war to human health: it makes this book all the more important.' Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, WHO Once more we owe a debt of gratitude to the medical world. This time it is due to the Finnish 'Physicians for Social Responsibility'. Their new publication, War and Health, is an encyclopaedia of peaceful information about war - its history, its weaponry, its destructiveness, its consequences for civilians and the environment and current hopes for its eventual abolition. A very useful resource book for all who are serious about peace.' Bruce Kent, The International Peace Bureau
Table of Contents
- Preface - Secretary General Kofi Annan, United Nations
- Introduction
- Part I: Historical View
- 1. Medicine against war - a historical review of anti-war activities of physicians - Christian Jenssen
- 2. The image of war in medical journals - a case study - Lauri Vuorenkoski, Ilkka Taipale, Vappu Taipale
- 3. Impact of warfare on medicine - Matti Ponteva
- 4. Problems of assistance and protection in modern conflicts - Gunnar Rosén
- 5. Changing character of war - Arto Nokkala
- 6. Military medicine - Matti Ponteva
- Part II: Different Arms Systems
- Conventional weapons
- 7. Antipersonnel weapons - Eric Prokosch and Ernst Jan Hogerndoorn
- 8. Small arms - Michael Renner
- 9. Anti-personnel landmines - Ian Maddocks
- Weapons of mass destruction
- 10. Chemical weapons - Julian P Perry Robinson
- 11. Biological warfare - how serious a threat? - P Helena Mäkelä
- 12. Health effects of the military use and testing of nuclear weapons - Kati Juva
- 13. Atomic bomb casualty, experiences from Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Masao Tomonaga
- 14. Nuclear terrorism - Frank Barnaby
- New technology
- 15. Non-lethal weapons - Nick Lewer
- Part III: Health and the Social Effects of Warfare
- Demographic effects
- 16. Morbidity and mortality among soldiers and civilians - Douglas Holdstock
- 17. The effects of wars on population - Anna Sillanpää
- Effects on health care
- 18. The health and social consequences of diversion of economic resources to war and preparation for war - Victor W Sidel and Barry S Levy
- 19. Case report: Health and war: Mozambique - Abdul Razak Noormahomed and Julie Cliff
- 20. Case report: Post-war health and health care in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Mauno Konttinen
- 21. Case report: Warfare and health: the case of West Africa - Kolawole T Raheem and Kingsley K Akinroye
- Vulnerable groups
- 22. Children and war - Vappu Taipale
- 23. Children's responses to the threat of nuclear war - Tytti Solantaus
- 24. Case report: Croatia - Paul Stubbs
- 25. Women as victims - Eva Isaksson
- 26. Rape - the female body as a symbol and a sign, gender-specific violence and the cultural construction of war - Ruth Seifert
- 27. Frontlines of mental health under war conditions - the case example of Former Yugoslavia - Søren Buus Jensen
- 28. The underprivileged, elderly, mentally ill and handicapped in the war - Klaus Doerner
- After the war
- 29. War-injured veterans getting old - Leo Jarho
- 30. War veterans - Risto Hyvärinen
- 31. Past trauma persisting in the present: the survivors of earlier war time trauma in old age - Linda Hunt
- Part IV: Social Structures in Connection with Wars
- 32. Arms trade and perceptions of security - Thomas A Cardamone
- 33. Psychological theories on aggressive behavior - Laura Pakaslahti
- 34. Language, communication and discourse - Paul A Chilton
- 35. The media in postmodern war and terrorism - Tapio Varis
- 36. War and alcohol - Jussi Simpura
- 37. Case report: Education for conflict resolution: a contribution to peacekeeping in the Republic of Macedonia - Violeta Petroska-Beska
- Part V: War and Environment
- 38. Conventional warfare and the human environment - Arthur H Westing
- 39. Case report: Military Pollution - nuclear waste: Sailing directions classified - Alexander Yemelyanenkov and Andrei Zolotkov
- 40. Case report: Nuclear pollution in the former USSR - Sergei Kolesnikov and Alexander Yemelyanenkov
- 41. Case report: Military pollution - chemical waste - B.B.Bondarenko, L.G.Kasyanenko, Ye.N.Rose and O.N.Simonova
- 42. Case report: Gulf War Illnesses: role of chemical, radiological and biological exposures - Garth L Nicolson, Nancy L Nicolson, Joerg Haier and Marwan Nasralla
- 43. Case report: Kosovo war - first environmental impact assesment - Pekka Haavisto
- Part VI: Prevention and Management of Wars
- International regulatory activities
- 44. The laws of Geneva and the Hague - Gunnar Rosén
- 45. From Nuremberg to the International Criminal Court - Martin Scheinin
- 46. Defensive security - Saul Mendlovitz and Merav Datan
- 47. Nuclear weapons elimination: strategies for overcoming the political deadlock - Merav Datan, Brian Rawson and Lars Pohlmeier
- 48. The World Court Project - Kate Dewes and Robert D Green
- 49. Conflict monitoring - Jennifer Leaning, Jonathan Fine and Richard Garfield
- 50. Globalization: Expanded opportunities to prevent regional and global conflict through negotiation, mediation and preventive diplomacy -William W Monning
- 51. The role of international organizations - does the United Nations still matter? - Meri Koivusalo
- 52. International Red Cross - Jari Pirjola and Pär Stenbäck
- 53. Defence restructuring and conversion - Jussi S Jauhiainen
- 54. Humanitarian assistance to countries at war - an exercise in futility? - Hannu Vuori
- 55. Case report: Forensic medical investigations in Kosovo - Kari Karkola
- Civilian efforts for peace
- 56. Trust building among nations in conflict through medical actions: the case of the Middle East - Ernesto Kahan
- 57. World religions - world peace - world ethic - Hans Küng
- 58. Stubborn peace: communities that refuse to fight - Mary-Wynne Ashford
- Different non-governmental associations
- 59. Pugwash - Tom Milne
- 60. A brief history of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Michael Christ
- 61. Médecins Sans Frontières - Terhi Heinäsmäki
- 62. Physicians for Human Rights - Jonathan Fine and Susannah Sirkin
- 63. Amnesty International - research, documentation and action for human rights - James Welsh
- 64. Operation Handicap International - Hanna Tapanainen
- 65. International Peace Research Association - Unto Vesa
