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Elizabeth Fee and Theodore M. Brown

Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Elizabeth Fee, PhD, Building 38, Room 1E21, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 (e-mail: elizabeth_fee@nlm.nih.gov).

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This "image of health" is the inverse of a peace image, but it is also a powerful reminder of how crusading anti–nuclear-war physicians and others in the public health community banded together in the midst of the Cold War to extend the peace and reduce the threat of the world’s disintegration into nuclear holocaust. The medical and public health campaign against the proliferation and possible use of nuclear weapons began in earnest in the late 1950s. Among its early leaders were psychiatrist Jerome Frank and pediatrician Benjamin Spock.

In response to growing fear of radioactive fallout from the atmospheric testing . . . [Full Text]