6. Health and Illness

Poppies for Medicine in Afghanistan: A Potential Balm for Numerous Ills

Opium poppies, Aryu, Panjshir province, Afghanistan, August 12, 2008. photo: Chuck Holton, http://flickr.com/photos/rangerholton/2757355468/
Authors: Metta Spencer

Summary:

Don't eradicate poppies. Use them to relieve pain.

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The US War in Afghanistan: A Primer for US Peace Activists

Engineer clearing a land-mine in Afghanistan, 2007. photo: UN Photo/UNMACA
Authors: Alexandra Cooper Jesse Laird Kelly Campbell Madelyn Hoffman

Summary:

The death toll is rising.

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From the Editor's Desk

Authors: Sam Diener

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The Human Right to Health: Reflections of a Community Educator

Rusasa, Rwanda, March 2008. Azalia Mitchell and participants in a week-long workshop on basic health education and the roles and responsibilities of health workers. Photo: James Haganza
Authors: Azalia Mitchell Melony Swasey

Summary:

No one should have to suffer and get sick because of a lack of information.

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There Are No More Secrets Here: Medical Professionals Protest Being Denied Entry to Gaza

Erez Crossing, Israel, October 26, 2008. Rally to protest Israel's denial of entry permits to dozens of medical and psychiatric professionals trying to attend a conference in Gaza. Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org
Authors: Alice Rothchild MD

Summary:We have traveled from all over the world to present research and to exchange ideas on the consequences of the ongoing trauma to the men, women, and children living in Gaza and to discuss how best to meet their clinical needs.

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Writing About War and Peace: Inside a Veterans' Group

Spiral staircase in the Töölö library, Helsinki, Finland, 2005. PHOTO: © REETTA R.
Authors: Shepherd Bliss

Summary:Shepherd Bliss describes his participation in a writers' group led by Maxine Hong Kinston.

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Imagining a New Global Eco-Economy: A Future US Presidential Blog Post

San Francisco Main Public Library, February 2006. PHOTO: THOMAS HAWK
Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson

Summary:Excerpt from the concluding novel in the Science in the Capital series, Sixty Days and Counting.

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Robust Utopias: A Conversation with Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson

Students at a demonstration in Paris, March 26, 2006. PHOTO: MALIAS VIA FLICKR
Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson Sam Diener

Summary:

A Conversation with Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson By Sam Diener

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Syrian Human Rights Defenders Brave Jail: Repression Met with Waves of Resistance

Syrian stamps celebrating the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Photo: Joseph Morris
Authors: Dr. Radwan Ziadeh

Summary:

Ali Abdullah has been jailed three times. One of his sons is serving a five-year sentence for involvement in a pro-democracy youth group. The other chose exile.

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Honoring a Pioneer of Women's Health: Barbara Seaman (1935-2008)

Barbara Seaman
Authors: the National Women's Health Network

Summary:

"In 1969, Barbara Seaman proved that women can talk back to doctors - calmly, rationally, and scientifically. For many of us, women's liberation began at that moment."

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