One World: The Health and Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century

by Robert Lanza (editor)

ONE 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 "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."

This is an enormous project which offers a view of the planet's future through the eyes of dozens of the world's best and brightest

325 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1995

About the author

ROBERT LANZA, MD, is one of the most respected scientists in the world. He is head of Astellas Global Regenerative Medicine, Chief Scientific Officer of the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and adjunct professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine. TIME magazine recognized him as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” and Prospect magazine named him one of the Top 50 “World Thinkers” in 2015. He is credited with several hundred publications and inventions, and more than 30 scientific books, including the definitive references in the field of stem cells and regenerative medicine. A former Fulbright Scholar, he studied with polio pioneer Jonas Salk and Nobel Laureates Gerald Edelman and Rodney Porter. Lanza was part of the team that cloned the world’s first human embryo, as well as the first to successfully generate stem cells from adults using somatic-cell nuclear transfer (therapeutic cloning).