M&GS/The PSR Quarterly
1991 – 2001
The PSR Quarterly was a peer-reviewed journal published by Physicians for Social Responsibility from 1991-93. In 1994, the journal was renamed Medicine & Global Survival and was adopted by the British Medical Association, with an expanded editorial board and a more international perspective on issues related to war, security, health, and the environment. IPPNW became the publisher of M&GS in 1996, where it continued for a time primarily as a digital journal on the internet. The final issue, a special online edition on the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant disaster, was published in 2011.
Medicine and Global Survival
2011 (Special Edition)
The Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Disaster
2001 (Volume 7)
Volume 7, Number 2
- Where Do We Go From Here? The Aftermath of September 11
Douglas Holdstock, MSc, MD; Neil Arya, MD; Mary-Wynne Ashford, MD; Ernesto Kahan, MD; Zia Mian, PhD; Arjun Makhijani, PhD; Rasil Basu, MA - Projected US Casualties and Destruction of US Medical Services From Attacks by Russian Nuclear Forces
Ira Helfand, MD; Lachlan Forrow, MD; Michael McCally, MD; Robert K. Musil, MPH, PhD - Maralinga: The Cleanup of a Nuclear Test Site
Alan Parkinson, BScTech, MScSoc - Bioterrorism Preparedness: Cooptation of Public Health?
Victor W. Sidel, MD, Robert M. Gould, MD; Hillel W. Cohen, DrPH - From Enemy to Peacemaker: The Role of Private Military Companies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jesse Selber, MPH; Kebba Jobarteh, MPH - The Severe Impact of Climate Change on Developing Countries
Dr. Joachim Gross
Volume 7, Number 1
- Why Mistakes Happen Even When the Stakes Are High:
The Many Dimensions of Human Fallibility
Lloyd J. Dumas, PhD - Japanese Civil Society and U.S.-Japan Security Relations in the 1990s
Naoki Kamimura, PhD - Small Arms: A Major Public Health Hazard
Wendy Cukier, MA, MPH; Antoine Chapdelaine, MD, MPH, FRCS(c) - Armed Violence
Robin Coupland, FRCS - Landmines in Russia and the Former Soviet Union: A Lethal Epidemic
Roman Dolgov
Commentary & Opinion
- Depleted Uranium Weapons and Acute Post-War Health Effects: An IPPNW Assessment
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
2000 (Volume 6)
Volume 6, Number 2
- The Medical First Response to Bioterrorism
Tara O’Toole, MD, MPH - A Public Health Response to Bioterrorism
Scott Lillibridge, MD - Pesticides and Parkinsonism: Is There a Link between Environmental Toxins and Neurodegenerative Disorders?
Alan Lockwood, MD - Refugee-Related Emergencies: Lessons Learned from the Emergency Management of Hunger Strikers
Frederick M. Burkle, Jr, MD, MPH; Jimmy T.S. Chan, MBBS (HK), FRCS (Ed); Richard S.D. Yeung, MBBCh (NUI), MRCP (UK); Hung C. Lee, MBBS (HK); Jaime Bendeck, MD; Cheong F. Yam, MBChB (HK); Raymond L. M. Chan, MBBS (HK) - Debt Relief: A Millennium Gift for Global Health
Mike Rowson - Environmental Security and Public Health: Steps Toward a New Theoretical Framework
Tee L. Guidotti, MD, MPH; John M. Balbus, MD, MPH - The Emergence of Megacities
J.R. Schubel, Carolyn Levi - The SIrUS Project: Progress Report on “Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering” in Relation to the Legality of Weapons
Robin M. Coupland, MD; Peter Herby
1999 (Volume 6)
Volume 6, Number 1
- Safe Nuclear Disarmament: Protecting Health and the Environment on the Road to Abolition
Merav Datan, JD - Childhood Cancer in the Vicinity of German Nuclear Power Plants
Alfred Körblein, MD and Wolfgang Hoffman, MD, MPH - Regional Nuclear War in South Asia: Effects on Surrounding Countries
Nicholas Wilson, MBChB, FAFPHM, MPH
Hospitals in War
- Health Services for Refugees in Host Country Hospitals: The Example of Croatia (1993-1997)
Leila J. Richards, MD, MPH - Emergency Medical Care During the First Three Months of the Siege of Sarajevo
Nedim Jaganjac, MD, MPH
Commentaries
- What Should Have Been Done in Kosovo?
John Loretz, Herman Spanjaard, MD, Victor W. Sidel, MD - Facing Up to Genocide: The Obligation to Intervene
Holly Burkhalter
1998 (Volume 5)
Volume 5, Number 1
- False Alarm or Public Health Hazard?: Chronic Low-Dose External Radiation Exposure
Wolfgang Köhnlein, PhD, Rudi H. Nussbaum, PhD - Antipersonnel Landmines: A Long Term Burden on Global Health
Ian Maddocks, MD - Towards a Determination of Which Weapons Cause “Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering”
Robin M. Coupland, MD - Next Steps After Rio +5: A Physician Briefing on Health and the Environment
Michael McCally, MD - Drought and Health Implications in Mozambique
Miguel Aragón, MD; Avertino Barreto, MD, Msc.; Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH - Commentary: Looking Beyond the Chemical Weapons Convention
Victor W. Sidel, MD
Volume 5, Number 2
Special Report: The South Asian Bomb
- Effects of a Nuclear Blast Over Bombay
M. V. Ramana, Ph.D. - The Politics of South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis
Zia Mian, Ph.D. - Indefensible Acts: South Asian Dissenters Speak Out Despite the Risks
John Loretz
Forum
Should We Continue to Seek Ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty?
- Why Abolitionists Should Not Support the CTBT in Its Current Form
Victor W. Sidel, M.D. - Why the CTBT Is Still An Essential Step Toward Nuclear Abolition
Daryl Kimball
Other Articles
- The Anthrax Dilemma
Victor W. Sidel, MD, Meryl Nass, MD, Tod Ensign, JD, LLM - Global Population: Milestones, Hopes, and Concerns
Vaclav Smil, PhD - A Letter From Chelyabinsk–April, 1998:
The End of Glasnost or the Beginning of a Civil Society?
David Rush, MD
1997 (Volume 4)
- From Arms Race to Human Race
Dr. Oscar Arías Sanchez - Nuclear Weapons, the Military and the Law: Reflections on the World Court Decision
Robert Green, Commander, Royal Navy (Retired) - The Future of the Global Physicians Movement
Jonathan M. Mann, MD, MPH - Physicians and the Prevention of War
Joanna Santa Barbara, MBBS, FRANZCP, FRCP - Notes on a Misunderstood Decision: The World Court’s Near Perfect Advisory Opinion in the Nuclear Weapons Case
Peter Weiss - Nuremberg and Nuclear Weapons
David Krieger
1996 (Volume 3)
[As of January 1996, M&GS suspended quarterly print publication and published new articles entirely on the Internet on the World Wide Web.]
- Emergency Psychiatric Service Following the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake
Masaya Yoshioka, et al - The Mysteries of Reprocessing Spent Nuclear Fuel
David Rush - Letter From Kiev and Moscow: Nuclear Realities Ten Years after Chernobyl
David Rush, M.D. - Psychosocial Interventions for Children of War: The Value of a Model of Resiliency
Roberta J. Apfel, M.D., M.P.H.; Bennett Simon, M.D. - The Effects of Weapons: Defining Superfluous Injury and Unnecessary Suffering
Robin Coupland, F.R.C.S. - Infectious Diseases: An Ecological Perspective
Mary E. Wilson, M.D. (Originally published in the British Medical Journal, December 23, 1995) - The International Arms Trade and Its Impact on Health
Victor W. Sidel, M.D. (Originally published in the British Medical Journal, December 23, 1995) - Nuremberg Lamentation: For the Forgotten Victims of Medical Science
William E. Seidelman, M.D. (Originally published in the British Medical Journal, December 7, 1996) - Not a Slippery Slope or Sudden Subversion: German Medicine and National Socialism in 1933
Hartmut M Hanauske-Abel, M.D. (Originally published in the British Medical Journal, December 7, 1996) - Health Sector Response to Security Threats During the Civil War in El Salvador
Paula E. Brentlinger, M.D. (Originally published in the British Medical Journal, December 7, 1996)
1995 (Volume 2)
Volume 2, Number 1
- Reverberations of Militarism: Toxic Contamination, the Environment, and Health
Ted H.Schettler, MD, MPH - A Letter from Krasnoyarsk
David Rush, MD - US Defense Nuclear Materials Production Sites: Do They Attract or Repel Jobs? (Some Suggestive Evidence)
Jurgen Brauer, PhD - The Environmental and Economic Legacy of the Nuclear Arms Race on the Communities of the Nuclear Weapons Complex: A Commentary on Jurgen Brauer
Greg Bischak, PhD - The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process — A New Lease on Life in the Middle East: Medical and Environmental Perspectives
Ernesto Kahan, MD, MPH
Volume 2, Number 2
- The Fifty Years of the Two Japans
Yoshikazu Sakamoto - The Debacle of the Enola Gay Exhibit: The Politicization of History
Stanley Goldberg, PhD - The Fate of the Gypsies at Auschwitz
Karl Bonhoeffer, MD - Life After Auschwitz and Buchenwald: Experiences of a Concentration Camp Survivor
Max Hamburger, MD - Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician’s Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands
James N. Yamazaki, MD, Louis B. Fleming - Caught Between Conscience Complicity: Human Rights Violations and the Health Professions
Torsten Lucas, MD, Christian Pross, MD - Nuclear Weapons Illegality — The Public Health Case
Nicholas Wilson, FAFPHM, DIH, MPH, Michael Baker, FAFPHM, DipObs
Volume 2, Number 3
- In the Shadow of Nuremberg: Pursuing War Criminals in the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Eric Stover - Whither Nuremberg?: Medicine’s Continuing Nazi Heritage
William E. Seidelman, MD - Nuremberg and the Nuclear Question
Norman Paech, JD - Promoting Health as a Sustainable State (Part 1)
Dr. Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, MPH - Can We Prevent the Use of Chemical Weapons by Terrorists?
R. Justin Smith, JD, Victor W. Sidel, MD, Meryl Nass, MD, Leonard A. Cole, PhD, Kenjiro Yokoro, MD - Global Bioethics: Converting Sustainable Development to Global Survival
Van Rensselaer Potter, PhD, Lisa Potter, BA
Volume 2, Number 4
- Health Consequences of Exposures to Ionizing Radiation from External and Internal Sources: Challenges to Radiation Protection Standards and Biomedical Research
Rudi H.Nussbaum, M.D., Wolfgang Köhnlein, PhD - Promoting Health as a Sustainable State (Part 2)
Dr. Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, MPH - Health Consequences and Medical and Public Health Response to the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in Japan: A Case Study in Disaster Planning.
Osamu Kunii, MD, MPH, Masumi Akagi, Etsuko Kita, MD, PhD - The Environment, Risk, and Health: Notes Toward a New Framework for Thinking About the Issues
Tee L.Guidotti, MD - The Role of Medicine in Conservation: A Look at Madagascar
Oliver Backhouse, MD - A Remedial Treasure in Our Tropical Timberyard?
Arnoud P.van Seters, MD
1994 (Volume 1)
Volume 1, Number 1
- US Government-Sponsored Radiation Research on Humans, 1945-1975
Michael McCally, MD, PhD, Christine K. Cassel, MD and Daryl G.Kimball - Victims of Antipersonnel Mines: What Is Being Done?
Robin M. Coupland, FRCS and Remi Russbach, MD - The Impact of Energy Use in Industrialised Countries upon Global Population Health
Anthony J.McMichael, MBBS, PhD, Alistair J.Woodward, MBBS, MPH, PhD, and Ruud E.van Leeuwen, MSc - Medicine, Public Health, and the Lurid Ethics of the Cold War
H. Jack Geiger, MD - Secrecy and Nuclear Accidents in the Southern Urals
Vyacheslav B. Sharov, MD - On the Sensitivity of Children to Radiation
Roland Scholz, MD - Sarajevo: Reflections on the Day No One Died
H. Jack Geiger, MD
Volume 1, Number 2
- Gun Violence-A Call for Physician Activism: Lessons from the Struggle to Ban Weapons of Mass Destruction
Robert C. Wesley, MD and Victor W. Sidel, MD - Limits of Epidemiology
Steve Wing - A Letter From Osijek
Robert Chernack, MD and Lawrence Dressner - The Third World Debt as a Symptom of the Global Crisis
Robin Stott, FRCP - Politics, Resources and the Environment
James O’Connell, PhD
Volume 1, Number 3
- Rwanda: Why There Must Be a War Crimes Tribunal
Napoleon Abdulai - Bosnia: War and Public Health
Jonathan M. Mann, MD, MPH, Ernest Drucker, PhD, Daniel Tarantola, MD, Mary Pat McCabe - War, Sanctions, and Humanitarian Assistance: The Iraqi Stalemate
Sarah Zaidi, ScD - Human Security During Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Rapid Assessment and Institutional Capabilities
Lincoln C. Chen, MD and Aafje Reitveld, MD - The North Korean Nuclear Crisis
Paul Leventhal and Steven Dolley
Volume 1, Number 4
- Humanitarian Action in Current Armed Conflicts: Opportunities and Obstacles
Remi Russbach, MD and Daniel Fink, PhD - The Rapid Assessment of Health Problems in Refugee and Displaced Populations
Michael Toole, MD - Preventing Humanitarian Crises Through Peace-Building and Democratic Empowerment: Lessons From Cambodia
Stephen P. Marks, PhD - Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Moral Quandaries
Sissela Bok, PhD - The Failures of “Intervention-From-Above”: Is There an Alternative Model for Humanitarian Intervention
Richard Falk, SJD - The Diplomat/Physician in the Emerging International System
Louis M.Marmon, MD, Christopher M. Seniw, BA and Allan E. Goodman, MPA, PhD
The PSR Quarterly
1993
Volume 3, Number 1
- On Childhood Lead Poisoning and Social Responsibility
Evelyn A. Mauss, ScD - Population and Environment: Core Issues for PSR’s Agenda on Peace and Security
Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD - Ending the Nuclear Age: The Manhattan Project II
Daniel Ellsberg, PhD, Robert K. Musil, PhD - Farewell to Arms: The Impact of the Arms Race on the Human Condition
Victor W. Sidel, MD - Science, Public Policy, and a Critic’s Dilemma
Sandra Scarr, PhD - The Right to Know in a Troubled and Victimized Society
Svetlana Tutorskaya
Volume 3, Number 2
- A Case Study in Estimating Casualties from War and Its Aftermath: The 1991 Persian Gulf War
Beth Osborne Daponte, MA - Patterns of Death: Descriptions of Geographic and Temporal Patterns of Rural State Terror in Guatemala 1978-1985
Paul Edward Yamauchi
.Volume 3, Number 3
- The Hanford Data: Issues of Age at Exposure and Dose Recording
Alice M. Stewart, MD and George W. Kneale, MD - Dioxin and Its Effects on Reproductive Systems
Claude Hughes, PhD, MD - Medical Education and Global Climate Change: Report of a Third-Year Course
Tee L. Guidotti, MD, MPH - Peacekeeping in the Name of Humanity
William Lewis, PhD - The Effects of Tropical Deforestation on Human Health
Roger L. Shapiro, MD
Volume 3, Number 4
- Population: What Does It Mean to Health?
J. Joseph Speidel, MD, MPH - Global Climate Change and Human Ecology.
Tee L. Guidotti, MD, MPH - A New International Order and Its Implications for U.S. Foreign and Defense Policy.
Robert S. McNamara - Sentencing Environmental Offenders.
Paul A. Chernoff, JD - Population: A View From the South.
Angela M. Wakhweya, MD - Population: The Link Between North and South.
Hari Sharan, PhD - Threats to a Sustainable Future: We Know Enough to Start Changing.
Andrew St. John, AIA - How to Build a House in New England and Take the Environment Into Account: One Family’s Experience.
Ellen Hofheimer Bettmann, Michael Bettmann, MD - A Proposal to Promote Clean Energy in the Developing World.
Hari Sharan, PhD
1992
Volume 2, Number 1
- Health Care After Chernobyl: Radiation, Scarcity, and Fear
Andrew M. Davis, MD - Gunshot Injuries With Plastic Bullets Treated in a Small Community Hospital in the Gaza Strip
Jay J. Schnitzer, MD, PhD - Some Pitfalls in Studies of Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation: The Healthy Dose Effect, Significance Questing, and Exposure Reductionism
Gregg S. Wilkinson, PhD - Risk and Biological Defense Research
Leonard A. Cole, PhD - Reverence for Life and Community Solidarity: An International Perspective
Jonathan M. Mann, MD
Volume 2, Number 2
- Trends in Soviet and Post-Soviet Psychiatry
Lawrence M. Probes, MD, Vladimir Kouznetsov, MD, PhD, Vladimir Verbitski, MD, PhD, and Vadim Molodyi, MD - Lead Poisoning Among Children in Katowice, Poland
Robert W. Ryder, MD - Children of Armed Conflict: The Case of 105 Ethiopian Children Repatriated After Extended Stays in a Somali POW Camp
Almaz Eshete, EdM - Mustard Gas
Seth Schonwald, MD - Further Thoughts on Chernobyl
Kai Erikson, PhD - Enemies of Utopia
Donald B. Luria, MD - Forsaking Reassurance: A Prescription for Physician Leadership on the Environment
Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA
Volume 2, Number 3
- Childhood Lead Poisoning: Man-Made and Eradicable
Herbert L. Needleman, MD - Desert Storm? or Thyroid Storm? An Inquiry
Herbert L. Abrams, MD - Cholera and the Environment: An Introduction to Climate Change
Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH - Call for Global Environmental Action
Gro Harlem Brundtland, MD, MPH - The Landmark Needleman Study of Childhood Lead Poisoning: Scientific and Social Aftermath
Paul Mushak, PhD
Volume 2, Number 4
- Estimate of the Risk of Leukemia to Residents Exposed to Radiation as a Result of a Nuclear Accident in the Southern Urals
Mira M. Kossenko, MD, Marina O. Degteva, PhD, Nelly A. Petrushova, MD - Anthrax Epizootic in Zimbabwe, 1978-1980: Due to Deliberate Spread?
Meryl Nass, MD - Scientific Integrity and Adequate Health Services: Twin Casualties of the Nuclear Arms Race
Bruce Amundson, MD - Understanding the Health Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Production in the Southern Urals: An Important Beginning
Scott Davis, PhD - International Arms Trade: A Barrier to Democracy and to Public Health
George A. Ellsworth, MD, Christine K. Cassel, MD
1991
Volume 1, Number 1
- The Neutron Bomb
Michael McCally, MD, PhD - The Health Effects of Radioactive Fallout on Marshall Islanders: Health Policy Issues of Nuclear Weapons Production
Thomas E. Hamilton, MD, PhD - The Labyrinth of Biological Defense
Meryl Nass, MD - Biological Weapons Research and Physicians: Historical and Ethical Analysis
Victor W. Sidel, MD - Death and Numbers: Semmelweis the Statistician
Herbert F. Spirer, PhD, Louise Spirer - Profiles in Responsibility: Alice Stewart
Christine K. Cassel, MD
Volume 1, Number 2
- Nerve Gases
Alan H. Lockwood, MD - Fostering Ecological and Human Health
Anthony D. Cortese, ScD, Audrey S. Armoudlian - Social Choices in the Arms Race
Oscar Arias-Sanchez, PhD - Global Security: A Role for Health Professionals
Andrew Haines, MD - Quid Est Amor Patriae
Victor W. Sidel, MD - War, Conscientious Objection, and Physicians for Social Responsibility
Daniel T. Young. MD - Why I Serve
Edward B. Marsh, MD - The Obligation to Treat
Ira Helfand, MD - Conscience and Obligation: Physicians and “Just War”
H. Jack Geiger, MD
Volume 1, Number 3
- Osthofen: The Terrain of Denial
Hartmut M. Hanauske-Abel, MD - Operation Just Cause: A Case Study in Estimation of Casualties After War
Paul Wise, MD, Nancy D. Arnison, JS, Gregg Bloche, MD, JD, Jane G. Schaller, MD - A Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource
S. Jay Olshansky, PhD, Gary Williams, PhD - Jimmy Carter Speaks to Physicians
Jimmy Carter - Needed: A National Program for Disaster Medical Preparedness
Leo V. Bosner, Larry S. Jordan
Volume 1, Number 4
- Child Survival and Global Sustainability: Malthus Revisted
Ronald J. Waldman, MD, MPH - “The World We Have Lost”: Western Historiography and Attitudes Toward Death and Bereavement Among Peoples of Pre-Industrial Europe
Janelle Greenberg, PhD - Difficulties in Verifying the Use of Chemical Weapons and the Implications: Some Brief Case Studies
Jan L. Willems, MD, PhD - Nuclear Disarmament
Eduard A. Sheverdnadze - How German Firms Helped Arm Iraq
Joachim Bartelt, Arend Wellmann - Humanity at War: The Environmental Price
Abdullah Toukan, PhD - The Animal Victims of the Gulf War
John Loretz