The dressing station : a surgeon's chronicle of war and medicine / Jonathan Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Jonathan, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kaplan, Jonathan, 1954-.

Kaplan, Jonathan.

Surgeons--Biography.

Surgeons.

Medicine, Military.

History.

Medicine, Military--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

407 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [2001]

Summary:

From treating the casualties of apartheid in Cape Town to operating on Kurdish guerrillas in Northern Iraq at the end of the Gulf War, Dr. Jonathan Kaplan has saved (and lost) lives in the remotest corners of the world under the most extreme conditions. Now he delivers "The Dressing Station, " a brilliant and often harrowing narrative that reveals the crucial work of field doctors all over the world, and the devastating realities of the zones of conflict in which they operate.

Contents:

1. South Africa 3

3. England 32

4. America 59

5. Namibia and Zululand 82

6. Kurdistan 107

8. The South China Sea 171

9. Mozambique 218

10. Transit Lounges 249

11. Burma 278

12. South Africa and Brazil 321

13. Eritrea 345.

ISBN:

0802117074

OCLC:

48249500