Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment

"Critical Condition is an important new statement on the planet's health from a group with exceptional moral and intellectual authority." -- Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University "Everyone who cares about health or the environment should read this valuable addition to environmental literature." -- Anne Ehrlich, Stanford University

For the first time in human history we are altering the basic physiology of the planet, yet until now there has been no single source that summarizes the medical consequences of this environmental crisis for human beings. Critical Condition brings together the best medical information available about global environmental degradation, including the effects on human health of war and military preparation, global warming, ozone depletion, species extinction, and loss of biodiversity. A Report of Physicians for Social Responsibility

Eric Chivian, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at harvard Medical School and Psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a co-founder of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. Michael McCally is Lecturer ini medicine at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. Howard Hu is Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Andrew Haines is Professor and Head of the Department of Primary Health Care at University College London Medical School.