One World: The Health and Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century

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ONE WORLD: The Health and Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century is a compelling collection of original essays written by some of the premier scholars and scientists of our time. The editor Robert Lanza MD persuaded distinguished contributors such as former President Jimmy Carter the Secretary-General of the United Nations Carl Sagan Jonas Salk Christiaan Barnard Linus Pauling US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop the US Secretary of Health and Human Services the Director-General of the WHO the President of the AMA (among the forty outstanding spokespeople represented including the Ministers of Health from the UK Japan France Russia and India) to join forces in a discussion of the worlds major interrelated issues of health and survival as we enter the next century. Lanza passionately states: "Society from scientist to politician to media representative to the man in the street must displace its apathy overcome resistance to new concepts of healing and lay aside its religious taboos. It must arouse public concern and stimulate the political will to attack problems based on an assessment of their damaging effects on humanity and the environment rather than on nationalistic and sectarian politics. Medicine and science have found the means to alleviate or remove much of human suffering from diseases but their progress is often hindered by the lack of or wrong motivations of society at large. Concerted international action ever greater research efforts and global exploration and application of our increasing fund of knowledge in areas of medicine and public health are urgently needed." This is an enormous project which offers a view of the planets future through the eyes of dozens of the worlds best and brightest minds: Jimmy Carter former President of the United States Boutros Boutros-Ghali Secretary-General of the United Nations Carl Sagan David Duncan Professor at Cornell University Jonas Salk Founder of the Salk Institute; Developed the Polio Vaccine Linus Pauling Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize & the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Christiaan Barnard Performed the Worlds First Human Heart Transplant C. Everett Koop Former Surgeon General of the United States President of the Royal Society President of the World Medical Association US Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert Gallo Chief of Tumor Cell Biology National Cancer Institute Jonathan Mann Director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University; and Founding Director of the World Health Organizations Program on AIDS President of the American Medical Association Director-General of UNESCO Luc Montagnier Discoverer of the AIDS Virus UN High Commissioner for Refugees James Hansen Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Greenpeace International Lynn Goldman U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The Honorable Maurice Strong Secretary-General of the U.N. Conference on Environmental and Development Ministers of Health from the United Kingdom Russia France Japan Canada Australia India among others