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Synopsis
This comprehensive reader of 70 specially commissioned essays provides an unusually wide-ranging examination of the connection between warfare and human health and society. Contributors look at the changing character of wars and their effects on civilization, the medical and health aspects of different types of weapons, the changing roles of health professionals in war. the arms trade, social tensions, the media, theories of violence, and war as a social institution.
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About the Author
Ilkka Taipale is a Member of Parliament, Finland, and Vice-President of PSR-Finland.
Review
When people are in danger, everyone has a duty to speak out...I hope [this] book can help us change our way of thinking as well as our way of acting. —Secretary General Kofi Annan, United Nations
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