{"product_id":"to-bear-witness-9780823255788","title":"To Bear Witness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dr. Cahill makes a powerful argument that humanitarian action and preventive diplomacy are far better prescriptions for peace than military intervention. He writes not as an academic or think tank pundit but as a physician who has been tending patients on the front lines of misery for over half a century. To Bear Witness is an important contribution to the search for a less violent 21st century.\" -- -Michael J. O'Neill Past President, American Society of Newspaper Editors \"It would be difficult for a biographer to weave together the many strands in the remarkable life of Kevin Cahill...He has practiced as a physician in the most impoverished, strife-torn, disease-ravaged parts of the world, and devoted much of his life (and considerable powers of persuasion) to humanitarian causes all over the globe. These essays, by turn 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.\" -- -Oliver Sacks M.D. \"Humanitarian affairs as a subject of intellectual study, and in the creation of practical policies, has emerged over the last two decades as one of the key issues in international politics. In this evolution Kevin Cahill has made, and continues to make, a very important contribution. A notable humanitarian, he draws from his personal devotion to patients, his worldwide knowledge of medicine, his skills as a health administrator, and his scholarship, writings and love of literature.\" -- -Lord David Owen Former Foreign Minister, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Locations 15       The Middle East 18      Beirut's Smell of Death 19      A Doctor's Reflections on the Libyan Situation 21      Gaza--Destruction and Hope 23       Somalia 32      For a U.S. Role in Somalia 33      Palm Sunday in Somalia 34      Starving Refugees Overwhelm Somalia 36      A Somali Postscript 39       Nicaragua 44      The Nicaraguan Earthquake 45      The Price for Differing with the U.S. Is Death 48      Of Constitutions, Democracy, Medicine, and Diplomacy 50      Holidays in Nicaragua 53      Fasting and Medicine in Nicaragua 56       Ireland 60      A Perverse Silence 61      Red Stains on the Emerald Isle: Can Only Blood Wash Them Out? 64      A Deathless Dream 67      The Descendants of the High Kings of Ireland 71       Part Two: Academia 75      New Realities, New Frontiers 78      The Peculiar Elan 83      The University and Revolution 87      The Symbolism of Salamanca 91      Grief and Renewal 98      To Bind our Wounds 100      Loaded Words 107      Dreams and Travel 112      A Necessary Balance 113      A Dublin Department 120      Is That All There Is? 123       Part Three: Continuity 128      Health on the Horn of Africa 132      The Untapped Resource 138      Irish Essays 142      Threads for a Tapestry 145      Famine 150      The AIDS Epidemic 151      A Bridge to Peace 154      Imminent Peril 155      A Framework for Survival 158      Clearing the Fields 172      Preventive Diplomacy 177      Traditions, Values, and Humanitarian Action 186      Technology for Humanitarian Action 189      The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance 190      Even in Chaos 192      More With Less 194      Books by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. cited in this Section 198       Part Four: Personal 203      God and My Life 204      The Influence of Yeats 208      On Being Short 226      Suffering and Pain 227      A Medical Student's Impressions of India 229      It Ain't Necessarily So 230      Romance and Reality 234      To Bear Witness 246      \"For Your 65th\" by Kathryn Cahill 250","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528015159639,"sku":"9780823255788","price":70.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823255788.jpg?v=1731870074","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-bear-witness-9780823255788","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}