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PHYSICIAN. SCIENTIST. PEACEMAKER WHAT ACADEMICIAN EVGENY CHAZOV BEQUEATHED TO DOCTORS AND DIPLOMATSстатья
- Авторы: Kolesnikov S., Emelyanenkov A.
- Журнал: Medicine, conflict, and survival
- Том: 38
- Номер: 1
- Год издания: 2022
- Издательство: Frank Cass Publishers
- Местоположение издательства: United Kingdom
- Первая страница: 4
- Последняя страница: 12.
- DOI: 10.1080/13623699.2022.2037421
- Аннотация: Half a century ago Evgeny Chazov met Bernard Lown, who stood with him for the creation of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). They both developed a deep understanding of many things in this life and symbolically left it one after the other. At that time at the inception of IPPNW it was unbelievable that their dream would be fulfilled on July 2017, when the UN General Assembly voted for the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty, which has now entered into force. And these two giants helped facilitate the first steps of this process.Last year Medicine, Conflict & Survival published Bernard Lown and the art of healing in medicine and in international problems and In Memorium Bernard Lown MD to commemorate the life of Professor Bernard Lown (Kolesnikov 2021; Alexander 2021); this time we shall pay tribute to Professor Evgeny Chazov, because the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize medal has two sides: on one side is Bernard Lown and on the other is Evgeny Chazov.And who knows, perhaps decades later we will say, as did Isaac Newton in his year 1675 letter, referring to Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo Galilei: ‘If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants’. And we will refer to Evgeny Chazov and Bernard Lown, as great men who paved the way to a world free from nuclear weapons.But did they have predecessors, whom we can call giants or at least great? Firstly, we should mention Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), both a great physician and pathologist, scientist and politician, who in his Der Armenartz (1848) wrote: ‘Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale’. He believed that ‘physicians, more than the representatives of other professions, are obliged to be messengers of peace and humanity’ (Virchow 1848). In a celebrated statement Richard Virchow summarized his belief in the utter inseparability of medicine from politics. Virchow regarded medicine not merely as the study of human disease but also as a general metaphor for understanding society (Virchow 1985).I believe that two other persona were Albert Einstein and Josef Rotblat, who in 1955 initiated the first antinuclear movement of scientists – Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
- Добавил в систему: Колесников Сергей Иванович