ONE WORLD: The Health and Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century  is a compelling collection of original essays written by some of the premier scholars and scientists of our time. The editor, Robert Lanza MD, persuaded distinguished contributors such as former President Jimmy Carter, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Carl Sagan, Jonas Salk, Christiaan Barnard, Linus Pauling, US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Director-General of the WHO, the President of the AMA (among the forty outstanding spokespeople represented, including the Ministers of Health from the UK, Japan, France, Russia, and India) to join forces in a discussion of the world's major interrelated issues of health and survival as we enter the next century..Lanza passionately states: "Society, from scientist to politician to media representative to the man in the street, must displace its apathy, overcome resistance to new concepts of healing, and lay aside its religious taboos. It must arouse public concern and stimulate the political will to attack problems based on an assessment of their damaging effects on humanity and the environment, rather than on nationalistic and sectarian politics.  Medicine and science have found the means to alleviate or remove much of human suffering from diseases, but their progress is often hindered by the lack of or wrong motivations of society at large. Concerted international action, ever greater research efforts and global exploration, and application of our increasing fund of knowledge in areas of medicine and public health are urgently needed." The idea behind this book is appealing, high-minded, and symbolically attractive--to bring together the work of 21 medical scientists from all over the world who share the convictions that global health is both critically important and critically imperiled and that governments and physicians must quickly learn to transcend geographic and political boundaries or risk losing their patient--the planet ... it's a remainder to physicians that concern with global health increasingly is part of their job description ... In the mid-1800s Rudolf Virchow said "Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a grand scale," and "medical instruction does not exist to provide individuals with an opportunity of learning how to earn a living but in order to make possible the protection of the public." This book will have succeeded if it reminds us of this charge. ―Journal of the American Medical Association This book is as bold and ambitious in scope as its title promises. It includes contributions from former president Jimmy Carter, former surgeon general C. Everett Koop, and 41 other world leaders, representing medical associations, the World Health Organization, other United Nations agencies, federal agencies in the United States and eight other nations, as well as stellar figures in medical research, such as Christiaan Barnard and Luc Montagnier. Some of the last works of Linus Pauling and Jonas Salk are published in this compendium. The editor, a well-known expert in transplantation biology, enlisted these leaders to provide facts and possibly thoughts and suggestions for necessary changes for the new century, thus offering a multifaceted picture of where we stand and where we intend to go. ―The New England Journal of Medicine Original essays written by some of the premier scholars of our times examine world health and survival in the 21st century. These reflections and studies examine social change in light of health changes; from constraints in world medical programs to the involvement of science and the humanities in expanding health programs. A fine discourse evolves. ―Midwest Book Review Lanza's book brightens the glimmer of hope. ... it distills the views and recommendations of world leaders on the health and survival of the human species. These important messages deserve attention both within and outside the health sector. ―British Medical Journal For many people, our global interdependence became clear, atleast for a short period of time, only after pictures of Earth were taken fromouter space. For some, such as Polybius more than 2000 years ago or Gandhi inmore recent times, this idea of interdependence permeated their thinking ... Unfortunately,the evidence in this country and the world is that instead of joining hands toshare both the benefits and the burdens of the world, the gap continues to growbetween the rich and the poor, with the rich consuming ever larger proportionsof the resources while the poor struggle to divide what remains ... If this is tobe reversed, it will be because those with the wealth, the science, theknowledge, the power, and the influence take deliberate action instead of relyingon things to "work out." ... This bookcontains a remarkable wealth of information to be used in formulating such adeliberate plan. It makes clear the importance