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Doctors Within Borders

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Author : Ming-cheng Lo
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-08-21

Doctors Within Borders written by Ming-cheng Lo and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-21 with Social Science categories.

This book explores Japan's "scientific colonialism" through a careful study of the changing roles of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial rule. By integrating individual stories based on interviews and archival materials with discussions of political and social theories, Ming-cheng Lo unearths the points of convergence for medicine and politics in colonial Taiwan.

Life In Crisis

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Author : Peter Redfield
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-02-25

Life In Crisis written by Peter Redfield and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-25 with Medical categories.

Parts of the chapters were published previously.

Doctors Without Borders

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Author : Renée C. Fox
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2014-06

Doctors Without Borders written by Renée C. Fox and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06 with Law categories.

Pioneering medical sociologist Ren e C. Fox spent nearly twenty years conducting extensive ethnographic research within M decins Sans Fronti res/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), a private international medical humanitarian organization that was created in 1971 and awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1999. Drawing on unprecedented access to MSF staff meetings, doctors, and field workers, Fox weaves a rich tapestry of the MSF experience with emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. Including vivid photographs of MSF operations, Doctors Without Borders explores the organization's founding principles, distinctive culture, and inner struggles to realize more fully its "without borders" transnational vision.

The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down

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Author : Anne Fadiman
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 1998-09-30

The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down written by Anne Fadiman and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-30 with Social Science categories.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. ______ Lia Lee 1982-2012 Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home.

Hope In Hell

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Author : Dan Bortolotti
language : en
Publisher: Firefly Books
Release Date : 2011-12-23

Hope In Hell written by Dan Bortolotti and has been published by Firefly Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-23 with Political Science categories.

More fascinating and harrowing accounts of the volunteer professionals who risk their lives to help those in desperate need. Praise for the second edition: "Direct and evocative, this well-written book pushes readers to the edge of a world of grueling realities not known by most Americans." -- Choice Doctors Without Borders (aka Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) was founded in 1971 by rebellious French doctors. It is arguably the most respected humanitarian organization in the world, delivering emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics and natural disasters as well as to many others who lack reliable health care. Dan Bortolotti follows the volunteers at the forefront of this organization and its work, who daily risk their lives to perform surgery, establish or rehabilitate hospitals and clinics, run nutrition and sanitation programs, and train local medical personnel. These volunteer professionals: Perform emergency surgery in war-torn regions of Africa, Asia and elsewhere Treat the homeless in the streets of Europe Honor cultural customs and understand societal differences that affect health care Witness and report the genocidal atrocities so often missed by mainstream media This new and revised third edition includes updates and new inside stories from recent relief operations, and it covers changes within the organization, such as its new emphasis on nutrition. There are also many new and revealing color photographs and insights gained from the author's 2009 trip to Haiti, where he found three different arms of MSF operating in dire conditions. Hope in Hell is a widely acclaimed portrait of a renowned Nobel-winning humanitarian organization, revealing how Doctors Without Borders provides immediate and outstanding medical care.

Hope In Hell

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Author : Dan Bortolotti
language : en
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books
Release Date : 2004

Hope In Hell written by Dan Bortolotti and has been published by Buffalo, N.Y. ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Medical categories.

Doctors Without Borders, also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, delivers emergency aid around the world. This book tells its history and examines the lives of individual volunteers. Topics range from emergency surgery in war zones to witnessing atrocities.

Healing Our World

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Author : David Morley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-04

Healing Our World written by David Morley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.

An inside look at a medical care agency.

Band Aid For A Broken Leg

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Author : Damien Brown
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2017-01-01

Band Aid For A Broken Leg written by Damien Brown and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Damien Brown thinks he's ready when he arrives for his first posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Africa. But the town he's sent to is an isolated outpost of mud huts, surrounded by landmines; the hospital, for which he's to be the only doctor, is filled with malnourished children and conditions he's never seen; and the health workers - Angolan war veterans twice his age who speak no English - walk out on him following an altercation on his first shift. In the months that follow, Damien confronts these challenges all the while dealing with the social absurdities of living with only three other volunteers for company. The medical calamities pile up - leopard attacks, landmine explosions, performing surgery using tools cleaned on the fire - but as Damien's friendships with the local people evolve, his passion for the work grows. Written with great warmth and empathy, Band-Aid for a Broken Leg is a compassionate, deeply honest and often humorous account of life on the medical frontline in Angola, Mozambique and South Sudan. It is also a moving testimony to the work done by medical humanitarian groups and the remarkable, often eccentric people who work for them.

An Imperfect Offering

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Author : James Orbinski
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-09-29

An Imperfect Offering written by James Orbinski and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-29 with Social Science categories.

Describes the author's experiences as a doctor for Doctors Without Borders in countries such as Somalia, Afghanistan, and Rwanda; the conditions he witnessed; and the political roadblocks that prevented aid from reaching patients.

War Doctor

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Author : David Nott
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2019-02-21

War Doctor written by David Nott and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances. ‘Brave, compassionate and inspiring – it left me in floods of tears’ – Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major London teaching hospital. The conflicts he has worked in form a chronology of twenty-first-century combat: Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur, Congo, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Gaza and Syria. But he has also volunteered in areas blighted by natural disasters, such as the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal. Driven both by compassion and passion, the desire to help others and the thrill of extreme personal danger, he is now widely acknowledged to be the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world. But as time went on, David Nott began to realize that flying into a catastrophe – whether war or natural disaster – was not enough. Doctors on the ground needed to learn how to treat the appalling injuries that war inflicts upon its victims. Since 2015, the foundation he set up with his wife, Elly, has disseminated the knowledge he has gained, training other doctors in the art of saving lives threatened by bombs and bullets. War Doctor is his extraordinary story. 'One of the most brutally vivid evocations of modern warfare that you will read . . . superb, unforgettable, simply written and painfully clear' – Sunday Times