New Perspectives on the Medical Consequences of Nuclear War

The Evolving Roles of the Medical Journal

“…More often, they follow medicine far afield, from the climatology data that appeared regularly in 1812, to concerns about degeneracy and race suicide in 1912 (1912b), and exposés on the health effects of environmental hazards (1966a), nuclear war (1986), and global climate change (1989). Joseph Garland, who oversaw the Journal's expansion into an international forum, believed that journals and their editorials need not "necessarily be confined to topics related to medicine, so long as they are ones in which the reader has or might have an interest" (1952).…”