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Public Health in the 1990s:
In the Shadow of Global Transformation and Militarism

Price $15.00

Vol. 22, No. 4 (1995)

Public Health in the 1990s is an excellent and timely compendium of some of the most important global public health issues that we currently face, including violence, occupational and environmental health, women's health, AIDS, health care delivery, landmines, chemical and nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste cleanup. Among the contributions are articles by American Public Health Association former President Victor W. Sidel, M.D., as well as by its President-Elect, Barry Levy, M.D., M.P.H. Jody Williams subsequently won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on landmines. This 175-page book will serve as an inexpensive classroom reader. It is also a reference document, teaching tool, and a source of inspiration to social activism.

ISSN: 1043-1578. Published quarterly by Social Justice, P.O. Box 40601, San Francisco, CA 94140. SocialJust@aol.com.

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Patrice Sutton and Robert Gould (eds.)

Introduction: Public Health in the 1990s

Patrice Sutton and Robert Gould

The Social Immune System and the Cancer Stage of Capitalism

John McMurtry

The Industrial Revolution in Health Care

Thomas Bodenheimer

Beyond Anger: The Activist Construction of the AIDS Crisis

Gilbert Elbaz

Health and Social Effects of Worldwide Economic Transformation: Focus on Occupational and Environmental Health

Barry S. Levy

The Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network: Case Study of Public Health Without Borders

Emily Merideth and Garrett Brown

Cairo to Beijing: Disaster Averted?

Janet Gottschalk

Landmines: A Global Socioeconomic Crisis

Jody Williams

Chemical Weapons Destruction: A Window of Opportunity

Velma L. Campbell and J. Ross Vincent

Federal Responsibilities and Realities: An Alternative View of the Cleanup of the Nuclear Weapons Complex

Michael Veiluva

Nuclear Weapons: Now and Forever? The Role of Laboratory-Based Testing in Maintaining Nuclear Weapons

Jacqueline Cabasso and Patrice Sutton

Violence as a Public Health Problem: Lessons for Action Against Violence by Health Care Professionals from the Work of the International Physicians Movement for the Prevention of Nuclear War

Victor W. Sidel and Robert C. Wesley, Jr.

Review of Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach

Robert Gould