Bernard Lown

Prescription for Survival (eBook, ePUB)

A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness

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Produktbeschreibung

"How close we came to extinction, and it is forgotten now." So begins Nobel Prize-winner Bernard Lown's story of his fight against the nuclear symptom of what he calls "the disease of militarism." It is still active and highly contagious, as witnessed by events in Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, and all too many other places. And it can only be stopped, as this extraordinary memoir vividly demonstrates, by concerned citizens working together. In 1981, brimming with anxiety about the escalating nuclear confrontation with the Russians, Lown launched a USA-USSR antinuclear movement with Soviet cardiologist Evgeni Chazov: The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Over the next four years Lown and Chazov recruited more than 150,000 doctors worldwide to join their movement, held international conferences that included U. S. and Russian military leaders, met with numerous world political leaders, and appeared on television programs broadcast throughout the USSR and the U. S. In 1985, despite active opposition from the U. S. government and NATO, Lown and Chazov accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of IPPNW. This dramatic story is told with a vibrancy of language that illuminates dramatic scenes such as Lown convincing King Hussein of Jordan to join the anti-nuclear struggle during a medical exam, the heart attack of a Russian journalist at an IPPNW press conference, and Lown's face-to-face conversations with Gorbachev. Although this book is concerned with a potential clash of superpowers, Lown writes, "At the heart of these cascading events is a human narrative." "Historical amnesia is a prelude for repeated victimization," Lown says. Prescription for Survival probes the past to help us understand what drove, and continues to drive, nuclear proliferation, and offers a blueprint showing how we can join together across national boundaries to end it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609944346
• Artikelnr.: 38331612

Autorenporträt

Dr. Bernard Lown is a cardiologist of world renown. He is a professor of cardiology emeritus at the Harvard School of Public Health, a senior physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and the chairman and founder of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Dr. Lown is a pioneer in the research on sudden cardiac death. He invented the direct-current defibrillator for resuscitating the arrested heart as well as the Cardioverter for correcting disordered heart rhythms. He also introduced the use of the drug lidocaine for the control of disturbances of the heartbeat. His innovative research established the role of psychological and behavioral factors on heart rhythms and as provocative factors of sudden death. Dr. Lown is the author or coauthor of four books relating to medicine and more than four hundred research articles published in peer- reviewed medical journals worldwide.

Inhaltsangabe

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