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This Reader concludes, as the International Humanitarian Affairs Book Series began, with a short essay combining dreams, hopes, and reality, and then with a poem. This chapter offers some philosophic reflections drawn from personal experiences in a career that has linked my own profession in clinical tropical medicine with periods of intensive scientific field research; public health appointments; international humanitarian assistance, especially in complex emergencies; government and United Nations service; and academic responsibilities in both medical schools and the university. It is hoped that this final section will allow the reader to share the many joys and inordinate satisfactions that sustain those who deal with the great problems posed by international humanitarian crises. The sixteenth-century poem/prayer by Sir Francis Drake captures, I believe, in four short stanzas, major themes of this Reader. All the contributors took risks in their professional careers to help define an emerging profession, one that aims at translating times and places of tragedy and chaos into peaceful and stable communities . And they have done their work with, as the poet notes, “courage, hope and love.” PART VII Epilogue CH30_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p381-388.indd 381 CH30_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p381-388.indd 381 2/13/13 11:16 PM 2/13/13 11:16 PM ...

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