Left: Dr Colin Butler. Right: Drs Maurice King and Colin Butler,
London in 1997.
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Medical
Adviser and Medical Director.
What's New
Australia's Medical Observer magazine has published a letter of Colin's called 'No time to nitpick about climate' in its 15/08/08 issue.
Recent sites of interest:
Dr Colin Butler writes on the Lancet and the arms trade: The successful campaign (2005-2007) to force the publisher of the Lancet to divest itself from the arms business
He also speaks on this subject on Australia's ABC Radio National's 'Perspective,' 4 March 2008: The Lancet and the arms trade
Dr Colin Butler speaks on Australia's ABC Radio National 1: Australia's attitude to climate change - a new form of White Australia?
Dr Colin Butler speaks on Australia's ABC Radio National 2: BODHI: A Buddhist influenced NGO
Colin's column, From the Medical Director's Desk, appears on page 2 of each edition of our newsletter, BODHI Times.
BODHI Times
1: 1991. The birth of BODHI
2: 1992. The demographic trap and public health
3: 1992. The technology trap and global health
4: 1993. Economics and health
5: 1993. The Queen of Ladakh & the man from Ghana
6: 1994. Child sponsorship
7: 1994. Leapfrogging the iron horse
8: 1995. Taking precautions
9: 1995. Power, the Middle Kingdom and the Middle Path
10: 1996. Solar towers, mad cows, and bequests
11: 1996. Seven years: another 630 million people
12: 1997. Chaos, complexity, and rat eaters
13: 1997. Mumbai, the boy child, and the Mobuto
14: 1998. Blind men, elephants, and the fifth continent
15: 1998. Everyone’s taking about the weather
16: 1999. Was Gandhi right or wrong?
17: 1999. Entitlement
18: 2000. Climate change: seven reasons for you to be concerned
19: 2000. AIDS, slaves and geo-engineering
20: 2001. Global income inequality
21: 2001. National security and the Cornucopian enchantment
22: 2002. Good news for a change
23: 2002. A global campaign of hope
24: 2003. The future is not another country
25: 2003. Land of the clouds. Dr Colin Butler's trip report to NE India
26: 2004. Ethical giving: the prince and the statue
27: 2004. The real costs of climate change
28: 2005. The silent tsunami
29: 2005. Using the poor as shock absorbers
30: 2006. Genocide through indifference
31: 2006. Rwanda revisited, Part 1. Guest columnist Prof John Guillebaud
31: 2006. Rwanda revisited, Part 2. Guest columnist Prof John Guillebaud
32: 2007. The right to be fully human
33: 2007. Startled awake: the nature of engagement
34: 2008. Caring for our only home
