| Title |
An imperfect offering : humanitarian action for the twenty-first century / James Orbinski. |
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| Publication Info. |
New York : Walker & Co., 2009, c2008. |
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| Description |
xi, 431 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: 2008. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-413) and index. |
| Contents |
Stories are all we have -- His beautiful eyes and my new shoes -- In Rwanda, we danced -- Searching for humanitarian space: MSF in Somalia -- Afghanistan: no scars, no story, no life -- An undoing -- Refugees in Zaire: fear of what they know, fear of what we cannot see -- The politics of being apolitical: humanitarian action in North Korea, Kosovo and the Sudan -- Creating a world of possibility: the fight for essential medicines -- Ummera: always we begin again -- Epilogue: what you can do. |
| Subject |
Orbinski, James.
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Medical assistance.
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War relief.
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Médecins sans frontières (Association) -- Biography.
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Physicians -- Canada -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780802717627 : $20.00 |
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0802717624 |
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| ISBN |
9780802717627 : $20.00 |
|
0802717624 |
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