To Bear Witness / Kevin M. Cahill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cahill, Kevin M., author.

Series:

International humanitarian affairs.

International Humanitarian Affairs Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Altruism.

Humanitarian assistance, American.

International cooperation.

International relief.

Medical assistance, American.

Physicians--United States--Biography.

Physicians.

Social workers--United States--Biography.

Social workers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

Updated, revised, and expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Locations; The Middle East; Beirut's Smell of Death; A Doctor's Reflections on the Libyan Situation; Gaza - Destruction and Hope; Somalia; For a U.S. Role in Somalia; Palm Sunday in Somalia; Starving Refugees Overwhelm Somalia; A Somali Postscript; Nicaragua; The Nicaraguan Earthquake; The Price for Differing with the U.S. Is Death; Of Constitutions, Democracy, Medicine, and Diplomacy; Holidays in Nicaragua; Fasting and Medicine in Nicaragua; Ireland; A Perverse Silence

Red Stains on the Emerald Isle: Can Only Blood Wash Them Out?A Deathless Dream; The Descendants of the High Kings of Ireland; Part Two: Academia; New Realities, New Frontiers; The Peculiar Élan; The University and Revolution; The Symbolism of Salamanca; Grief and Renewal; To Bind our Wounds; Loaded Words; Dreams and Travel; A Necessary Balance; A Dublin Department; Is That All There Is?; Part Three: Continuity; Health on the Horn of Africa; The Untapped Resource; Irish Essays; Threads for a Tapestry; Famine; The AIDS Epidemic; A Bridge to Peace; Imminent Peril; A Framework for Survival

Clearing the FieldsPreventive Diplomacy; Traditions, Values, and Humanitarian Action; Technology for Humanitarian Action; The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance; Even in Chaos; More With Less; Books by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. cited in this Section; Part Four: Personal; God and My Life; The Influence of Yeats; On Being Short; Suffering and Pain; A Medical Student's Impressions of India; It Ain't Necessarily So; Romance and Reality; To Bear Witness; "For Your 65th" by Kathryn Cahill

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780823255924

0823255921

9780823255795

0823255794

9780823255917

0823255913

OCLC:

854974526