To Bear Witness A Journey of Healing and Solidarity [Hardcover]

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.??? ...A doctor without borders... ...Dr. Cahill's memoir deserves an honored place on the bookshelves of anyone thinking of a career in humanitarian action. Dr. Cahill has brought to bear a broad vision and profound concern for the troubled areas of our troublous times. [Cahill's] humanitarian work...has spanned decades of famine, epidemics, wars, and other catastrophes around the world. A portrait of a life devoted to others. ...a rich selection of his writings- essays,op-ed pieces, speeches, and other works, and offers a fascinating window into Dr. Cahill's life's work. Kevin Cahill writes not as an academic or think-tank pundit but as a physician who has been tending patients on the front line of misery for over half a century . . . in hospital wards where statesmen never go but where he saw the 'limbless bodies' and smelled the 'festering wounds' of the human debris of senseless violence. To Beal“K