Bøger af Kevin M. Cahill

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."

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 chronicle

Having had the privilege of working throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as in the great medical centers of Europe and the United States, the author presents the essential details for understanding pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, therapy, and prevention of the major tropical diseases.

This work covers topics such as the history of humanitarian action, the scope of international humanitarian crises, developing a professional corps, team building, developing a common language, and funding international humanitarian action.

This work covers issues such as early warning and preparedness, rapid health and physical needs assessments, recognizing and managing severe malnutrition, the unique needs of refugees and IDPs, security, exit strategies and the transition to peace.

Includes essays that explore mandates for humanitarian action in religious traditions, and codes of conduct for the media, military, medicine, and the academy in relief efforts. This book explores threats to human welfare from terrorism and gender exploitation and assess international law, and the media.

This book is a celebratory history, marking 25 years since the founding of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC).

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