To Bear Witness: Updated, Revised, and Expanded EditionFordham Univ Press, 25.08.2009 - 272 Seiten 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.” |
Inhalt
Acknowledgements | 17 |
Locations | 19 |
The Middle East | 21 |
A Doctors Reflections on the Libyan SituationAmerica 1986 | 23 |
Somali Refugee Camp 1980 | 30 |
Somalia | 31 |
Palm Sunday in Somalia | 32 |
Starving Refugees Overwhelm Somalia | 35 |
Medicine and Diplomacy | 157 |
Irish Essays | 160 |
Threads for a Tapestry | 162 |
Southern Sudan 1977 | 163 |
Famine | 169 |
A Bridge to Peace | 173 |
Public Health inDeclining Economy | 174 |
Health Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters | 184 |
A Somali Postscript | 39 |
Nicaragua 1972 | 46 |
Nicaragua | 47 |
The Price for Differing With the US Is Death | 53 |
Of Constitutions Democracy Medicineand Diplomacy | 59 |
Holidays in Nicaragua | 62 |
Fasting and Medicine in Nicaragua | 65 |
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland RCSI 2002 | 70 |
Ireland | 71 |
Can Only Blood Wash Them Out? | 73 |
A Deathless Dream | 75 |
Academia | 87 |
New York 2004 | 88 |
New Realities New Frontiers | 89 |
The Peculiar Élan | 95 |
The University and Revolution | 101 |
The Symbolism of Salamanca | 105 |
Somalia The Constant Fear of Death 1979 | 114 |
Grief and Renewal | 115 |
To Bind our Wounds | 116 |
Loaded Words | 125 |
Dreams and Travel | 130 |
A Necessary Balance | 134 |
Continuity | 151 |
Somalia 1980 | 152 |
Health on the Horn of Africa | 153 |
The United Nations 1974 | 156 |
Northern Somalia 1995 | 192 |
Solutions to theLandmine Crisis | 197 |
Preventive Diplomacy | 202 |
Southern Sudan 1981 | 215 |
Traditions Values and Humanitarian Action | 216 |
Technology for Humanitarian Action | 218 |
Books by Kevin M Cahill MD cited in this section | 223 |
Personal | 224 |
The Influence of Yeats | 225 |
Childhood | 227 |
University Days | 235 |
The Sudan | 237 |
Nicaragua | 238 |
Conclusion | 246 |
Point Lookout 1957 | 247 |
On Being Short | 248 |
Suffering and Pain | 249 |
A Medical Students Impressions of India | 250 |
Myths Dreams and Reality | 254 |
It Aint Necessarily So | 255 |
An Evolving Tapestry | 261 |
Pope John Paul II and the author 1982 | 262 |
To Bear Witness | 263 |
Sannes woods 2003 | 264 |
For Your 65th | 265 |
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