Joussineau S, Riddez L; Swedish Disaster Medicine Study Organization.Prehosp Disaster Med. 2006 Mar-Apr;21(2):117-8. A break in safety locks resulted in the release of high quantities of gamma and neutron radiation directly exposed three workers and indirectly exposed as many as 310,000 other persons. The two persons who received the highest doses ultimatley succumbed due to […]
Otani H, Kusumi T, Kato K, Matsuda K, Kern RP, Widner R Jr, Ohta N.Memory. 2005 Jan;13(1):6-20. Flashbulb memories are vivid memories of the details surrounding the discovery of an emotional event. We investigated whether the nuclear accident that occurred in Japan in 1999 produced flashbulb memories among people who lived near the accident site. […]
Akashi M, Kumagaya K, Kondo H, Hirose Y.Health Phys. 2010 Jun;98(6):804-9. An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck the Niigata-Chuetsu region of Japan at 10:13 on 16 July 2007. The earthquake was followed by the sustained occurrence of numerous aftershocks, delaying the reconstruction of community lifelines. The earthquake affected the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power […]
Wiesemann C.J Med Ethics. 2011 Mar 1. [Epub ahead of print] The paper discusses the current medical practice of ‘gender verification’ in sports from an ethical point of view. It takes the recent public discussion about 800m runner Caster Semenya as a starting point. At the World Championships in Athletics 2009 in Berlin, Germany, Semenya […]
Seifert AE, Polusny MA, Murdoch M.Mil Med. 2011 Feb;176(2):161-9. OBJECTIVE: We examined associations between abusive childhood experiences and functioning and psychiatric symptoms in an active duty sample of U.S. Army soldiers.METHODS: Cross-sectional survey of 204 soldiers stationed at a southern U.S. Army facility.RESULTS: Forty-six percent of individuals reported childhood physical abuse alone, whereas 25% reported […]
INSERM Collective Expert Reports. Paris: Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, 2004. Excerpt. Suicide constitutes a major public health problem. It is a manifestation of self-destructive behavior that results from a crisis situation often not sufficiently recognized by relatives and friends or by the medical profession. It affects all age categories […]
Douse J, Derrett-Smith E, Dheda K, Dilworth JP.Postgrad Med J. 2004 May;80(943):284-6. OBJECTIVE: To compare the views of doctors and patients on whether doctors should wear white coats and to determine what shapes their views.METHODS: A questionnaire study of 400 patients and 86 doctors was performed.RESULTS: All 86 of the doctors’ questionnaires were included in […]
Ablin JN, Cohen H, Eisinger M, Buskila D.Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2010 Nov-Dec;28(6 Suppl 63):S51-6. OBJECTIVES: To assess the frequency of fibromyalgia among a population of Holocaust survivors in Israel as well as the occurrence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and concurrent psychiatric symptoms, including depression and anxiety among survivors.METHODS: Eighty-three survivors of the Nazi Holocaust […]
Bromet EJ, Havenaar JM, Guey LT.Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2011 Feb 15. [Epub ahead of print] The Chernobyl Forum Report from the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster concluded that mental health effects were the most significant public health consequence of the accident. This paper provides an updated review of research […]
Issues Law Med. 2010 Fall;26(2):91-195. This article completes a study that the author foreshadowed in his previous articles. The Western moral theory that defends the inalienable right to life and liberty–and that therefore forbids all forms of suicide and slavery–is now well known to the author’s readers. What is not well known is an answer […]
