Medicine and warPub Date : 1991-07-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009108408990
D Lester, B J Yang
{"title":"The effect of war on personal aggression.","authors":"D Lester, B J Yang","doi":"10.1080/07488009108408990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009108408990","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effect of war on the suicide rate and on the relative likelihood of suicide as a proportion of total personal aggression was examined in the United States for the time period from 1933 to 1986. Once unemployment was controlled for, no effect of war was detected.</p>","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"7 3","pages":"215-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009108408990","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12921197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1991-07-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009108408996
{"title":"Iraq-occupied Kuwait: the health care situation. Conclusions. Physicians for human rights (Denmark and USA).","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/07488009108408996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009108408996","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"7 3","pages":"252-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009108408996","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12921198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1991-07-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009108408989
A Behar, F Cohen-Boulakia, S Othmani, M Sène
{"title":"Chernobyl, four years on.","authors":"A Behar, F Cohen-Boulakia, S Othmani, M Sène","doi":"10.1080/07488009108408989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009108408989","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is still too soon to make a full assessment of the Chernobyl disaster, but one should be begun, and practical inferences, with particular reference to the prevention of radiation-induced cancers, may be drawn.</p>","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"7 3","pages":"200-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009108408989","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12920843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1991-07-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009108408986
A J Bruwer
{"title":"'The creation of unimaginably large amounts of radioactivity'.","authors":"A J Bruwer","doi":"10.1080/07488009108408986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009108408986","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"7 3","pages":"169-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009108408986","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12920842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1991-07-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009108408987
A. Poteliakhoff, P. Craig
{"title":"Four decades of the Medical Association for Prevention of War.","authors":"A. Poteliakhoff, P. Craig","doi":"10.1080/07488009108408987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009108408987","url":null,"abstract":"An outline history is given of The Medical Association for Prevention of War, including its role in launching Professions for World Disarmament and Development, the International Network for a UN Second Assembly, and Medicine and War.","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"7 3 1","pages":"173-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009108408987","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59453702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1991-04-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009108408973
D L Dumitrascu, A Baban
{"title":"Irritable bowel syndrome complaints following the uprising of December 1989 in Romania.","authors":"D L Dumitrascu, A Baban","doi":"10.1080/07488009108408973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009108408973","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Irritable bowel syndrome has a strong psychogenic component. One of its features is the influence of stress on the clinical state. An increased amount of irritable-bowel-like symptoms within the first month following the uprising in Romania in December 1989 is reported. These symptoms seem to be related to the impressive amount of stress developed by dramatic events presented live on television and watched by the population. Several new cases as compared to the previous year were also reported by our group for the study of psychogenic factors in irritable bowel syndrome.</p>","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"7 2","pages":"100-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009108408973","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13025747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1991-04-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009108408974
D M Forrest
{"title":"Doctors and human rights.","authors":"D M Forrest","doi":"10.1080/07488009108408974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009108408974","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article describes the roles of Amnesty International's Medical Groups and the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture in campaigning for and treating those suffering the physical and psychological effects of human rights abuse in peace and war.</p>","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"7 2","pages":"105-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009108408974","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13027889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1991-04-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009108408976
I Lee
{"title":"Second International Conference on Wartime Medical Services.","authors":"I Lee","doi":"10.1080/07488009108408976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009108408976","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Provision of wartime medical services is influenced by the psychological as well as the immediate physical injuries caused by war. But the psychological trauma of war is much less clearly understood than direct physical injury. The Second International Conference on Wartime Medical Services concentrated on these broader, less tangible effects of war, particularly in children. UNICEF estimates that 80% of the direct and indirect victims of military action are children and women. Other papers at the conference included reports on Israeli parents' fears for their children, combat stress reactions in Israeli soldiers, the physical and psychological responses of 35 Iranian-held American hostages and of Finnish veterans of the Finnish/Soviet war (1941-44), the nature of injuries to Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, and injuries from chemical attack in Iran and medical responses to these.</p>","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"7 2","pages":"120-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009108408976","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12842721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1991-04-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009108408972
D Summerfield, L Toser
{"title":"'Low intensity' war and mental trauma in Nicaragua: a study in a rural community.","authors":"D Summerfield, L Toser","doi":"10.1080/07488009108408972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009108408972","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>'Low intensity' warfare, with its key psychological element, aimed to terrorize the rural population of Nicaragua during the 1980s. A survey of ex-refugees still living in the war zone revealed 62% of men and 91% of women as 'cases' of psychological disturbance on the General Health Questionnaire. Somatization was central to the subjective experience and communication of the distress caused by the Contra war. Sustained sleep disturbance, hyperalertness and other anxiety-based symptomatology and poor concentration were very common and were exacerbated by war-related cues. 25% of men and 50% of women merited a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder. Some distress reflected unresolved grief states. The longer term mental and social costs of terrorization have been insufficiently documented in the Third World.</p>","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"7 2","pages":"84-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009108408972","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13025752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1991-04-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009108408975
E A Willis
{"title":"Human and health rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Essay review.","authors":"E A Willis","doi":"10.1080/07488009108408975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009108408975","url":null,"abstract":"Essay on: Physicians for Human Rights. Health Care in Detention: A Study of Israel's Treatment of Palestinians. Somerville: PHR (58 Day Street, Suite 202, Somerville, MA 02144, USA), April 1990. Alofs B. More Than Tear‐Gas: Harassing Agents and their Use in the Israeli Occupied Territories. Amsterdam: Dutch Palestine Committee Human Rights Project (P.O. Box 10520, 1001 EM Amsterdam), 1989. United Nations. Palestinian Children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Prepared for, and under the guidance of, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. New York, NY 10017: UN, 1990. Association of Israeli‐Palestinian Physicians for Human Rights. Activities Reports: 1988–1990; June‐July 1990; August‐September 1990. Tel‐Aviv: AIPPHR (P.O.B. 10235, Tel‐Aviv 61101).","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"7 2","pages":"113-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009108408975","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13025750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}