An imperfect offering : dispatches from the medical frontline /: dispatches from the medical frontline. (2009)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- An imperfect offering : dispatches from the medical frontline /: dispatches from the medical frontline. (2009)
- Main Title:
- An imperfect offering : dispatches from the medical frontline
- Further Information:
- Note: James Orbinski.
- Other Names:
- Orbinski, James
- Contents:
- Part One. 1. Stories are all we have -- 2. His beautiful eyes and my new shoes -- 3. In Rwanda, we danced -- 4. Searching for humanitarian space: MSF in Somalia -- 5. Afghanistan: no scars, no story, no life --- Part Two. 6. An undoing --- Part Three. 7. Refugees in Zaire: fear of what they know, fear of what we cannot see -- 8. The politics of being apolitical: humanitarian action in North Korea, Kosovo and the Sudan -- 9. Creating a world of possibility: the fight for essential medicines -- 10. Ummera: always we begin again --- Epilogue: what you can do.
- Publisher Details:
- London : Rider
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xi, 431 pages), illustrations, portraits
- Subjects:
- 361.26092
MEDICAL / Ethics
Humanitarian assistance
Physicians
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical
Medical ethics & professional conduct
Human rights
Physicians -- Biography
Humanitarian assistance
Electronic books
Biography
Biography - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780091930325
0091930324 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781846041020
1846041023 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note: Print version record. - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.198527
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