Doctors without borders : humanitarian quests, impossible dreams / Renée C. Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Renée C. (Renée Claire), 1928-2020, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voluntary health agencies.

Epidemics.

Médecins sans frontières (Association).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Enriched by vivid photographs of MSF operations and by ironic, self-critical cartoons drawn by a member of the Communications Department of MSF France, Doctors Without Borders highlights the bold mission of the renowned international humanitarian organization even as it demonstrates the intrinsic dilemmas of humanitarian action.

Contents:

Voices from the field

Origins, schisms, crises

"Nobel or rebel"?

MSF Greece ostracized

Return of MSF Greece

La Mancha

Struggling with HIV/AIDS

In Khayelitsha

A non-western "entity" is born

Reaching out to the homeless and street children of Moscow, with Olga Shevchenko

Confronting TB in Siberian prisons, with Olga Shevchenko.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-1355-8

OCLC:

876389069