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To Bear Witness A Journey of Healing and Solidarity

Cahill Kevin M.
Innbundet / 2005 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780823225064
Publisert
2005-09-01
Utgiver
Fordham University Press
Vekt
576 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Cahill Kevin M.

Biografisk notat

Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. is University Professor and Director of Fordham University's Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA).  He also serves as President of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC), Director of the Tropical Disease Center at Lenox Hill Hospital, Clinical Professor of Tropical Medicine and Molecular Parasitology at New York University School of Medicine, Chief Medical Advisor for Counterterrorism, NYPD, Professor of International Humanitarian Affairs at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Senior Consultant to the United Nations Health Service. Dr. Cahill has served as Chief Advisor on Humanitarian Affairs and Public Health for three Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly.

To Bear Witness A Journey of Healing and Solidarity

Cahill Kevin M.
Innbundet / 2005 / Engelsk
Cahill Kevin M.
Innbundet / 2005 / Engelsk
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"...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)

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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"...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)

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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Analyses the tension between multilingual practices and the monolingual paradigm in 20th century literature through the German writings of Kafka, Adorno, Tawada, Ozdamar, and Zaimoglu.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780823225064
Publisert
2005-09-01
Utgiver
Fordham University Press
Vekt
576 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Cahill Kevin M.

Biografisk notat

Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. is University Professor and Director of Fordham University's Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA).  He also serves as President of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC), Director of the Tropical Disease Center at Lenox Hill Hospital, Clinical Professor of Tropical Medicine and Molecular Parasitology at New York University School of Medicine, Chief Medical Advisor for Counterterrorism, NYPD, Professor of International Humanitarian Affairs at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Senior Consultant to the United Nations Health Service. Dr. Cahill has served as Chief Advisor on Humanitarian Affairs and Public Health for three Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly.

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