Publications

Public Health Handbooks

Public Health Handbooks published by CCRDF             Early Childhood Care Infant's cardiac  diseases   Prenatal Booklet "A Healthy Pregnancy" Manual of Neonatal  Care   Fundamentals of Neonatology Chornobyl's Long Shadow

Ukrainian women are yearning for information to help them care for their children and to prevent birth complications. Last year, with the help of the Monsanto Company, CCRDF published and distributed thousands of copies of its pioneering new illustrated health booklet entitled "Normal'na Vahitnist'" (A Healthy Pregnancy) Designed by American and Ukrainian obstetricians and public health specialists, this 50 page booklet gave young mothers the facts they needed to safeguard the health of their unborn babies and to protect themselves from unnecessary risks during pregnancy.

In 2000 we distributed a companion volume on the "Health of your Baby during the First Year of Life".

In 2000 with the help of the International Women’s Organization “Zhinocha Hromada” CCRDF published “The Essentials of Neonatology”. This book was distributed free of charge among neonatologists all over .

In 2004 CCRDF in cooperation with our sponsors (Nestle, NZ Techno, Aesculap, US Optics, Medtronics Foundation and Colonel Yaropolk Hladkyj) published and distributed free of charge a book  entitled “Infant cardiac diseases”

 In 2005 with the help of the Kyiv Lion’s Club CCRDF published our second Ukrainian-language edition of the popular “Manual of Neonatal Care” by Dr. John Cloherty and Dr. Ann Stark, the 700 page handbook that neonatal specialists around the world consider the definitive authority on this issue.  We have distributed this volume at no cost to hundreds of doctors across .

This year, in commemoration of the 20^th Anniversary of Chornobyl disaster CCRDF published a book by Dr. Olha Horishna “Chornobyl’s long shadow”. This ground-breaking anthology of research studies on radiation health effects of the Chornobyl disaster was published both in Ukrainian and English.

Books

The Sky Unwashed Buy
by Irene Zabytko

This unusual novel was inspired by a true story of Ukrainians who, despite government prohibition, returned to their village near Chernobyl less than a year after the nuclear accident. They did it, they told reporters, because they had nowhere else to go and missed home.

Focusing on one old woman and her family, the novel vividly depicts life in a remote part of the former Soviet Union. Marusia, of a generation only slightly past serfdom, is accustomed to deprivation and hard work. Zosia, who lives in her mother-in-law's ancient cottage with Yurko, her husband, and their two children, knows-from TV-what's available if only she had money. Zosia and Yurko both work extra shifts at the Chernobyl nuclear plant.

As the novel opens on April 25, 1986, a traditional village wedding is in progress. Overnight, everything changes. The air "smells of metal." Butterflies shrivel and die. And the extent of the "accident" is kept a secret, not only from the world, but from those most at risk.

Eventually, the villagers are evacuated to a hospital basement in Kiev. And after watching her loved ones die or flee, Marusia simply gets on a train to Chernobyl and then walks back to her deserted village. When five other old women turn up, they band together, confront officials, and live out their days in the place of their birth.

THE SKY UNWASHED cuts through Chernobyl's Big Story to explore the beauty of the human spirit.

Other Source Materials on Chornobyl

RADIATION INJURY AND THE CHERNOBYL CATASTROPHE

by Dainiak, Schull, Karkanitsa & Aleinikova
AlphaMed Press, Miamisburg, 1997

NO BREATHING ROOM

by Grigori Medvedev
Harper-Collins Publishers, 1993.

CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL

by Michelle Carter & Michael Christensen
Augsburg, Minneapolis, 1993.

CHERNOBYL, THE FORBIDDEN TRUTH

by Alla Yaroshinskaya
University of Nebraska Press, Omaha, 1995

JOURNEY TO CHERNOBYL: ENCOUNTERS IN A RADIOACTIVE ZONE

by Glenn Alan Cheney
Academy Publishers, Chicago, 1995

EARTH IN THE BALANCE

by Al Gore
Penguins Books, New York 1993

CHERNOBYL WAS... TOMORROW

by Vitali Skliarov
Les Presses D'Amerique, Montreal, 1993

Bojcun & Haynes, THE CHORNOBYL DISASTER: The True Story of A Catastrophe - An Unanswerable Indictment of Nuclear Power; Current Affairs, Hogarth Press, London, 1988

Feshbach, Murray & Friendly, Alfred ECOCIDE IN THE USSR, Harper Collins, New York 1991.

Carothers, Andre, Children of Chernobyl, Greenpeace Magazine, January/February 1991.

Edwards, Mike Chernobyl, One Year After, National Geographic, May 1987.

Hawkes, et al CHERNOBYL: THE END OF THE NUCLEAR DREAM, Vintage Books, Random House, New York 1987; (A Collection of Articles from the London Observer).

Hyde, Lily Rising mortality, low birth rate spur demographic crisis, Kiev Post, March 6-12, 1997

Kazakov, Demidchik, et al Thyroid Cancer after Chernobyl, NATURE, Volume 359, 3 September, 1992.

Los Angeles Time Wire Service, Chernobyl impact worse than reported, June 19, 1992, reprinted in Hartford Courant, June 19, 1992.

Marples, David, The Decade of Despair, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 1996.

Marples, David THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER, St. Martin's Press, New York 1988.

Marx & Beh-Edger, I HEAL, THE CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL IN CUBA, Lerner Publications Company, Minneapolis 1996.

Medvedev, Grigori, THE TRUTH ABOUT CHERNOBYL, Harper-Collins, 1990. (originally "The Chernobyl Chronicle" in Russian) (Rated by New York Times as one of the five best non-fiction books of 1991.)

Pope, Victoria and Julie Corwin, Radiation in Russia, World Report, US News & World Report, August 9, 1993.

Savchenko, V.K. THE ECOLOGY OF THE CHERNOBYL CATASTROPHE, Man and the Biosphere Series, Volume 16, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Association), Paris, 1995

Sternberg, Steve, Widespread cancer risk seen in fallout, USA Today, 22 December 1997.

Shcherbak, Jurij, CHERNOBYL: A DOCUMENTARY STORY, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Edmonton, 1989

Shcherbak, Ambassador Yuri, "Ten Years of the Chornobyl Era", The Scientific American, April 1996.

Transcript of Testimony, THE LEGACY OF CHORNOBYL 1986 TO 1996 AND BEYOND, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 104th Congress, Hearing, US Government Printing Office, April 23, 1996.