Bethune in Spain / Roderick Stewart and Jesús Majada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Roderick, author.

Majada Neila, Jesús, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bethune, Norman.

Bethune, Norman, 1890-1939--Travel--Spain.

Communists.

Philanthropists.

History.

Medical care.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Participation, Canadian.

Spain.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Medical care.

Spain--Description and travel.

Physicians--Canada--Biography.

Physicians.

Canada.

Philanthropists--Canada--Biography.

Communists--Canada--Biography.

General Surgery.

Medical Subjects:

General Surgery.

Canada.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Norman Bethune (1890-1939) was a man who had everything, and yet had nothing. Although he had achieved international prominence as a surgeon, he was unhappy in his personal life and deeply frustrated by a failed attempt to introduce medicare to Canada. An uncompromising humanitarian in search of a cause, Bethune became immersed in the Spanish Civil War. In Bethune in Spain, Roderick Stewart and Jesús Majada recount Bethune's achievements in Spain and the events that led to his decision to assist the Spanish Republican forces. The narrative contains Bethune's letters and reports, some of them reproduced here for the first time, as well as newspaper articles about and interviews with him. It covers his creation and operation of a mobile blood transfusion unit, his rescue of fleeing Loyalist civilians during the Málaga-Almería road tragedy, and his efforts to aid children orphaned by the War. It also deals with the gruelling public-speaking tour Bethune undertook on his return to Canada in 1937 to plead for intervention in support of democracy in Spain and to raise awareness of atrocities against civilians committed by the fascist-backed Spanish Nationalists. Illustrated with photographs from Bethune's seven months in Spain, several previously unpublished, Bethune in Spain is a poignant portrait of an early advocate for universal health care, an unwavering communist, and a crusader for the Spanish Republican cause. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Roots 3

2 Spain 12

3 The Canadian Service 21

4 The Voice of Protest 37

5 The Serviclo Canadiense Expands 55

6 The Málaga-Aimería Road 65

7 New Projects 86

8 Unravelling 101

9 The Return 125

10 Other Horizons 146.

Notes:

Includes newspaper articles, printed interviews, personal letters, and reports.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160), filmography and index.

Other Format:

Stewart, Roderick, 1934-, author. Bethune in Spain.

ISBN:

9780773543836

077354383X

OCLC:

864504881