Life in Crisis

Author: Peter Redfield
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0520274849
Category: Medical

Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders

Life in Crisis tells the story of MAdecins Sans FrontiAres (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to "save lives" on a global scale. Download Life in Crisis medical books for free.
Begun in 1971 as a French alternative to the Red Cross, the MSF has grown into an international institution with a reputation for outspoken protest as well as technical efficiency. It has also expanded beyond emergency response, providing for a wider range of endeavors, including AIDS care. Yet its seemingly simple ethical goal proves deeply complex in practice. MSF continually faces the problem of defining its own limits. Its minimalist form of care recalls the promise of state welfare, but without political resolution or a sense of well-being beyond health and survival. Lacking utopian cert Get Life in Crisis our bestseller medical books.

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Begun in 1971 as a French alternative to the Red Cross, the MSF has grown into an international institution with a reputation for outspoken protest as well as technical efficiency. It has also expanded beyond emergency response, providing for a wider range of endeavors, including AIDS care. Yet its seemingly simple ethical goal proves deeply complex in practice. MSF continually faces the problem of defining its own limits Lacking utopian cert

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