To Bear Witness

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...
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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 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." Dr. Cahill is the author and editor of many books, including, most recently, History and Hope: The International Humanitarian Reader.