Description

For more than forty-five 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 book 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; 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 science writer, Oliver Sacks, 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.