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Published in: Society 4/2015

01-08-2015 | Review Essay

Doctors Without Borders

Renée C. Fox, Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 316pp, $24.95. ISBN: 978-1421413549

Author: Donald W. Light

Published in: Society | Issue 4/2015

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For those of us who have worked in the field, it is true, the experience infinitely broadens our horizons while it humbles us at the same time. It ‘changes our life,’ just as it may shatter us completely—we see peaks and valleys of humanity we never knew existed, and perhaps are not able to bear.
Ed Rachey “MSF Changed My Life” 2000
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Literature
Fox, R. C. 1995. Medical humanitarianism and human rights: reflections on doctors without borders and doctors of the world. Social Science and Medicine, 41(12), 1607–1616.CrossRef
MSF. 2013. Untangling the web of price reductions: A pricing guide for the purchase of Arvs for developing countries (16th ed.). Geneva: Médecins Sans Frontières Campaign for Access to Essential Meidicines.
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Title
Doctors Without Borders
Renée C. Fox, Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 316pp, $24.95. ISBN: 978-1421413549
Author
Donald W. Light
Publication date
01-08-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 4/2015
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-015-9915-1

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