Book reviews

• Published in: Medicine and war 1990, Vol.6 (2), p.124-133
• Main Authors: Irwin, Michael, Dupré, Peter, Bruwer, André, Craig, Kevin, Dace, Martin, Sachs, J. A., O'Sullivan, Geraldine, Holdstock, Douglas
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0748-8009
• DOI: 10.1080/07488009008408917

Global humanitarianism 'Winning the Human Race?'. A Report of the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, edited by Zia Rizvi, Secretary-General of ICIHI, Zed Books, London and New Jersey, 1988, 232pp., £4.95, ISBN 0-86232-801-2. Peace analysed 100 Questions about Peace. By Göran von Bonsdorff (translated by Stephen Simpson), Peace Union of Finland, Helsinki, 174 pp., ISBN 952-90050-7-5, from Rauhanasema Peace Station, Veturitori, SF-00520 Helsinki. Bomb-test victims Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy. By Philip L. Fradkin, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1989, 300pp., $14.95, ISBN 0-8165-1143-8. To ban or not to ban Nuclear Weapon Tests: Prohibition or Limitation? Edited by Jozef Goldblat and David Cox, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988, 445pp., £40.00, ISBN 0-19-829120-5. Radiation for and against health Living with Radiation: The Risk, the Promise. By Henry N. Wagner and Linda E. Ketchum, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1989, 193pp. $17.95, ISBN 0-8018-3787-1. Warring against children Children on the Front Line: The impact of apartheid, destabilization and warfare on children in Southern and South Africa. 1989 update with a new section on Namibia. A Report for UNICEF, edited by David Harland, UNICEF, New York and Geneva, 1989, 125pp., £5.00/$8.00. Mothers of the disappeared Psychological Effects of Political Repression. By Diana R. Kordon, Lucila I. Edelman, D. M. Lagos, E. Nicoletti, R. C. Bozzolo, Sudamericana/Planeta, Buenos Aires, 1988,197pp., ISBN 950-99202-0-7, free of charge from Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims, Juliane Maries Vej 34, 2100 Copenhagen ø. WHO at work The work of WHO in the European Region: 1988. Annual report of the Regional Director, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 1989, pp. 184, SWfr 12.00, ISBN 92-890-1258-4.