{"product_id":"doctors-without-borders-humanitarian-quests-impossible-dreams-of-medecins-sans-frontieres-paperback","title":"Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRenée C. Fox\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate portrait of the renowned international humanitarian organization.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the PROSE Award for Excellence, Sociology and Social Work of the Association of American Publishers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study of Médecins Sans Frontières \/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) casts new light on the organization's founding principles, distinctive culture, and inner struggles to realize more fully its \"without borders\" transnational vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePioneering medical sociologist Renée C. Fox spent nearly twenty years conducting extensive ethnographic research within MSF, a private international medical humanitarian organization that was created in 1971 and awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1999. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith unprecedented access, Fox attended MSF meetings and observed doctors and other workers in the field. She interviewed MSF members and participants and analyzed the content of such documents as communications between MSF staff members within the offices of its various headquarters, communications between headquarters and the field, and transcripts of internal group discussions and meetings. Fox weaves these threads of information into a rich tapestry of the MSF experience that reveals the dual perspectives of an insider and an observer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book begins with moving, detailed accounts from the blogs of women and men working for MSF in the field. From there, Fox chronicles the organization's early history and development, paying special attention to its struggles during the first decades of its existence to clarify and implement its principles. The core of the book is centered on her observations in the field of MSF's efforts to combat a rampant epidemic of HIV\/AIDS in postapartheid South Africa and the organization's response to two challenges in postsocialist Russia: an enormous surge in homelessness on the streets of Moscow and a massive epidemic of tuberculosis in the penal colonies of Siberia. Fox's accounts of these crises exemplify MSF's struggles to provide for thousands of people in need when both the populations and the aid workers are in danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnriched by vivid photographs of MSF operations and by ironic, self-critical cartoons drawn by a member of the Communications Department of MSF France, \u003ci\u003eDoctors Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the bold mission of the renowned international humanitarian organization even as it demonstrates the intrinsic dilemmas of humanitarian action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRenée C. Fox\u003c\/b\u003e is the Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eExperiment Perilous: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown, In the Belgian Château: The Spirit and Culture of a European Society in an Age of Change, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn the Field: A Sociologist's Journey\u003c\/i\u003e and the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Courage to Fail: A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis and Observing Bioethics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47689328787715,"sku":"9781421416922","price":392.81,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/R083c29TdUV0ZGhud2FRS0JWQy9vdz09.webp?v=1769568916","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-cn\/products\/doctors-without-borders-humanitarian-quests-impossible-dreams-of-medecins-sans-frontieres-paperback","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}