One World: The Health and Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0929173163 ISBN 13: 9780929173160

Publisher: Health Pr, 1996

Synopsis

This is an enormous project which offers a view of the planet's future through the eyes of dozens of the world's best and brightest minds, including:

Carl Sagan, David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell University;

Luc Montagnier, Discoverer of the AIDS Virus;

Jonas Salk Founder of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Developed the Polio Vaccine;

Linus Pauling, Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry;

and many others.

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Review:

"This book is as bold and ambitious in scope as its title promises. It includes contributions from former president Jimmy Carter, former surgeon general C. Everett Koop, and 41 other world leaders, representing medical associations, the World Health Organization, other United Nations agencies, federal agencies in the United States and eight other nations, as well as stellar figures in medical research, such as Christiaan Barnard and Luc Montagnier. Some of the last works of Linus Pauling and Jonas Salk are published in this compendium. The editor, a well-known expert in transplantation biology, enlisted these leaders to provide facts and possibly thoughts and uggestions for necessary changes for the new century, thus offering a multifaceted picture of where we stand and where we intend to go." -- The New England Journal of Medicine

Original essays written by some of the premier scholars of our times examine world health and survival in the 21st century. These reflections and studies examine social change in light of health changes; from constraints in world medical programs to the involvement of science and the humanities in expanding health programs. A fine discourse evolves. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Health Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0929173163
• ISBN 13: 9780929173160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 325
• Editor: Lanza Robert