To Bear Witness: A Journey of Healing and Solidarity (International Humanitarian Affairs) - Hardcover

M.D., Kevin M. Cahill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823225062 ISBN 13: 9780823225064

Verlag: Fordham University Press, 2005

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Book by Cahill Kevin M

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Críticas:

"...A doctor without borders..." -Fordham Magazine "...Dr. Cahill's memoir deserves an honored place on the bookshelves of anyone thinking of a career in humanitarian action." -- -Patrick J. Ryan America "Dr. Cahill has brought to bear a broad vision and profound concern for the troubled areas of our troublous times." -World Policy Journal "[Cahill's] humanitarian work...has spanned decades of famine, epidemics, wars, and other catastrophes around the world." -The Chronicle of Philanthropy "A portrait of a life devoted to others." -Publishers Weekly "...a rich selection of his writings- essays,op-ed pieces, speeches, and other works, and offers a fascinating window into Dr. Cahill's life's work." -Irish America Magazine "Kevin Cahill writes not as an academic or think-tank pundit but as a physician who has been tending patients on the front line of misery for over half a century ... in hospital wards where statesmen never go but where he saw the 'limbless bodies' and smelled the 'festering wounds' of the human debris of senseless violence. To Bear Witness is an important contribution to the search for a less violent 21st century." -- -Michael J. O'Neill Former President, American Society of Newspaper Editors "To Bear Witness is a fascinating book for anyone working in humanitarian areas or interested in global affairs." -- -Sean O'Driscoll Irish Voice

Reseña del editor:

For more than fifty years, Dr. Cahill has been helping to heal the world, as a leading specialist in tropical medicine and as a driving force in humanitarian assistance and relief efforts around the globe. In this revised and expanded edition, he chronicles extraordinary achievements of compassion and commitment. Bringing together a rich selection of writings, he crafts a fascinating memoir of a life devoted to others. The book includes front-line reports from places under siege-Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, Nicaragua, Gaza, and Ireland; there are also visionary essays from the origins of the AIDS epidemic and landmine crises, and no less passionate concerns of his own experiences of pain and suffering-as well as of joy and beauty-in the worlds in which he has traveled. As the distinguished neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, M.D., notes in his endorsement, "These essays, by turns elegiac, lyrical, funny, tender, nostalgic, and vehemently impassioned, come together in an ongoing tapestry, a portrait of a dedicated physician who has dared to make a difference."

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• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0823225062
• ISBN 13: 9780823225064
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272