In this Book
- To Bear Witness: Updated, Revised, and Expanded Edition
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: International Humanitarian Affairs
summary
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.”
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. 12
- Introduction
- pp. 13-14
- Part One: Locations
- pp. 15-17
- The Middle East
- pp. 18-31
- Part Two: Academia
- pp. 75-125
- Part Three: Continuity
- pp. 126-200
- Part Four: Personal
- pp. 201-255
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823255924
Related ISBN(s)
9780823254057, 9780823255788
MARC Record
OCLC
854974526
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No