An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

LEAF, Alexander

2 entries
  • 11476

New perspectives on the medical consequences of nuclear war.

New Engl. J. Med., 315, 905-912, 1986.

Leaf helped found Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) in 1961 and became a prominent member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). This paper highlighted "new research on estimated casualties, the effects of radiation, and post-blast immune dysfunction. A full third of the article examined what looked to be the most deadly consequence of any nuclear war: global starvation. Food reserves would be contaminated or plundered, technologies for harvest, transportation, and refrigeration would fail, and radiation would disrupt ecosystems" (Dunk & Jones, Sounding the alarm on climate change, 1989 and 2019," New Engl. J. Med., 382 (2020) 205-07.).



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment, TOXICOLOGY › Radiation Exposure
  • 11475

Potential health effects of global climatic and environmental changes.

New Engl. J. Med., 321, 1577-1583, 1989.


Subjects: BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment