Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières

327 Pages·2014·2.18 MB·English

by  Renée C. Fox

Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders
Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams
of Médecins Sans Frontières
Renée C. Fox
Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fox, Renée C. (Renée Claire), 1928– author.
Doctors Without Borders : humanitarian quests, impossible dreams of Médecins
Sans Frontières / Renée C. Fox.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4214-1354-9 (hbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 1-4214-1354-X (hbk. : alk. paper)
— ISBN 978-1-4214-1355-6 (electronic) — ISBN 1-4214-1355-8 (electronic)
I. Title.
[DNLM: 1.Médecins Sans Frontières (Association) 2.Voluntary Health Agencies.
3.Epidemics—prevention & control. 4. Medical Missions, Official. 5. Relief Work.
WA1]
RA651
614.4—dc23 2013032122
A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.
Frontispiece. Cartoon of Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza that appeared on
the front of T-shirts worn by members of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans
Frontières at their 2005 “La Mancha” conference. Printed on the back of the shirts was
the full text of the lyrics of “The Impossible Dream,” the theme song of the Broadway
musicalMan of La Mancha. Cartoon reprinted with permission from Samuel Hanryon,
a.k.a. “Brax,” Rash Brax. Permission for use of lyrics from “The Impossible Dream” has
been granted by Alan S. Honig.
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This book is dedicated to the women and men
I have taught over the years, to their dreams,
and to the fulfillment of their dreams
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Contents
The Quests: An Introduction 1
Overture
PART I:
1 Voices from the Field 13
Growing Pains
PART II:
2 Origins, Schisms, Crises 43
3 “Nobel or Rebel?” 59
4 MSF Greece Ostracized 73
5 The Return of MSF Greece 88
A Culture of Debate
PART III:
6 La Mancha 101
In South Africa
PART IV:
7 Struggling with HIV/AIDS 121
8 In Khayelitsha 133
9 A “Non-Western Entity” Is Born 185
In Postsocialist Russia
PART V:
10 Reaching Out to the Homeless and Street Children of Moscow
with Olga Shevchenko 201
11 Confronting TB in Siberian Prisons
with Olga Shevchenko 215
Coda. Remembering the Past and Envisioning the Future 249
Acknowledgments 269
Notes 275
Index 309
Doctors Without Borders