Prescription for Survival. A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness
Berrett-Koehler (Verlag)
978-1-57675-482-5 (ISBN)
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In Prescription for Survival, physician Bernard Lown tells the extraordinary story of how a group of Soviet and American doctors came together to stop nuclear proliferation and ended up winning the Nobel Peace Prize and influencing the course of history. In 1981, Lown and a Soviet colleague, Evgeni Chazov, launched a USA-USSR medical antinuclear movement: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Over the next four years Lown and Chazov recruited more than 150,000 doctors worldwide, met with numerous world leaders, and, after a surprising amount of adventure, intrigue and conflict, in 1985 accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of IPPNW. More than a memoir, this book sheds new light on what really drove and still drives the nuclear arms race, the critical importance of citizen involvement in social change efforts, and what Lown terms the ongoing epidemic of militarism, which a glance to recent headlines shows is still very much with us.
Dr. Bernard Lown is Professor of Cardiology (Emeritus) at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the developer of the original defibrillator. He is the cofounder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, an organisation which won the Nobel Prize in 1985, as well as SATELLIFE and PorCor. He is the author of The Lost Art of Healing: Practicing Compassion in Medicine.
Prologue
Chapter 1: Nuclear Realities
Chapter 2: Early Russian connections
Chapter 3: More of Russians
Chapter 4: Fears, doubts and faint beginnings
Chapter 5: A delicate pas de deux
Chapter 6: A mini Geneva convention
Chapter 7: Airlie House: opposition on the home team
Chapter 8: Airlie House to Ascot: encountering heroes
Chapter 9: Military brass came marching in
Chapter 10: We dominate Soviet TV for one hour
Chapter 11: The Catholic Church defends my left flank
Chapter 12: Pay attention to Gorbachev! But who is he?
Chapter 13: "Smuggling" out a Russian painting threatens IPPNW
Chapter 14: IPPNW grows into a world movement - 3rd Congress, Amsterdam
Chapter 15: Downing KAL 007 flight dampens peace work
Chapter 16: IPPNW a venue for Andropov's message in time of deepening crisis.
Chapter 17: A new chilling dimension to nuclear war
Chapter 18: The Richard Perle brouhaha
Chapter 19: Endless daylight in Helsinki
Chapter 20: Mothers fight back
Chapter 21: The Russians are coming
Chapter 22: Gorbachev challenges the nuclear status quo
Chapter 23: Adventure behind the Iron Curtain
Chapter 24: Nobel Prize secret betrayed
Chapter 25: From Nobel ceremonies to a long conversation with Gorbachev
Epilogue
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.7.2008 |
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| Verlagsort | San Francisco |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 164 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 863 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-57675-482-0 / 1576754820 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-57675-482-5 / 9781576754825 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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