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For the Good of Humanity: Ludwik Rajchman, Medical Statesman by Marta A Bali ska
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- Book Title
- For the Good of Humanity: Ludwik Rajchman, Medical Statesman
- Publication Date
- 1998-01-05
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9789639116177
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- For the Good of Humanity : Ludwik Rajchman, Medical Statesman
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Central European University Press
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 22.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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In this biography of Ludwik Rajchman, Marta A. Balinska paints a portrait of a true hero of our times. He was born in Poland in 1881 and was an exponent of humanitarian intervention and defender of colonized people, as adept in secret diplomacy as in organizing vast anti-epidemic campaigns. He inspired the creation of WHO and the foundation of UNICEF, of which he became the first chairman. Progressive but opposed to all dogmas, he was forced by McCarthyism to flee the U.S. and soon became an object of suspicion in the Soviet bloc, finding himself estranged from his beloved Poland. As the story of this remarkable life unfolds, the reader is given a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the major events that shaped the twentieth century. Using family archives and documentary sources from a dozen countries, the author brilliantly reconstructs the career of a man who was not only the first médecin sans frontiere but also an intellectual with an exceptional sense of the universal.
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Publisher
Central European University Press
ISBN-10
9639116173
ISBN-13
9789639116177
eBay Product ID (ePID)
601586
Product Key Features
Publication Name
For the Good of Humanity : Ludwik Rajchman, Medical Statesman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
R154.R17b3513 1998
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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Balinska's biography is peopled with a veritable pantheon of the first generation of international civil servants - from the Secretary-General of the League, Sir Eric Drummond, to Nansen, Monnet, and, as regards Britain, such notable internationalists as Philip Noel Baker, Lord Cecil, and Arthur Salter - who all worked closely with Rajchman and praised him highly. Monnet ascribed to him a rare 'sense of the universal', and the Irish nutritionist W.R. Aykroyd (a close colleague of Rajchman) observed that almost always he 'had the good of humanity at heart'. Balinska's study profusely demonstrates the truth of these lofty estimations, as well as of her subject's own profound conviction that co-operation can transcend personal, political, and national ambitions., "It is a rediscovery of a utopian who believed in the efficiency of international institutions, in the troubled era of fierce nationalism."--Le Monde "Balinska's biography is peopled with a veritable pantheon of the first generation of international civil servants - from the Secretary-General of the League, Sir Eric Drummond, to Nansen, Monnet, and, as regards Britain, such notable internationalists as Philip Noel Baker, Lord Cecil, and Arthur Salter - who all worked closely with Rajchman and praised him highly. Monnet ascribed to him a rare 'sense of the universal', and the Irish nutritionist W.R. Aykroyd (a close colleague of Rajchman) observed that almost always he 'had the good of humanity at heart'. Balinska's study profusely demonstrates the truth of these lofty estimations, as well as of her subject's own profound conviction that co-operation can transcend personal, political, and national ambitions."--Medicine, Conflict and Survival, It is a rediscovery of a utopian who believed in the efficiency of international institutions, in the troubled era of fierce nationalism.
Table of Content
Preface Acknowledgements Prologue Introduction I. The Awakening of a Sense of Responsibility (1881-1990) II. The Dream of a Social-Cultural Revolution (1900-1906) III. Towards Independence IV. Fighting Epidemics (1918-1922) V. The Health Organization: The Spirit of Invention VI. A "Bold Game": Mission to China (1929-1934) VII. Towards Catastrophe: The Thirties VIII. From Geneva to Nanking: The Common Cause of the Democratic World (1939) IX. Delegate of Sikorksi (1939-1940) X. An "Undertaking Strewn with Adventures" : The Soong-Rajchman Lobby (1940-1944) XI. A Melancholy World XII. The Watershed (1944-1946) XIII. An Emergency Fund for Children (1947-1965) XIV. A Pole on International Assignment Notes Index
Copyright Date
1998
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Political, Europe / General, Historical
Lccn
98-045333
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
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