Publicado por Health Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0929173163 ISBN 13: 9780929173160
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine/Fine. First Edition. A tight clean first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscrip tions, not an ex-lib; Original essays written by some of the premier scholars of our times examin e world health and survival in the 21st century. These reflections and stud ies examine social change in light of health changes; from constraints in w orld medical programs to the involvement of science and the humanities in e xpanding health programs. A fine discourse evolves. The New England Journal of Medicine "This book is as bold and ambitious in scope as its title promises. It includes contributions from former president Jimmy Carter, former surgeon general C. Everett Koop, and 41 other world leaders, representing medical associations, the World Health Organization, other United Nations agencies, federal agencies in the United States and eight other nations, as well as stellar figures in medical research, such as Christiaan Barnard and Luc Montagnier. Some of the last works of Linus Pauling and Jonas Salk are published in this compendium. The editor, a well-known expert in transplantation biology, enlisted these leaders to provide facts and possibly thoughts and uggestions for necessary changes for the new century, thus offering a multifaceted picture of where we stand and where we intend to go.".