For the Good of Humanity : : Ludwik Rajchman, Medical Statesman / / Marta A. Balińska.
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 inspi...
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Balińska, Marta A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut For the Good of Humanity : Ludwik Rajchman, Medical Statesman / Marta A. Balińska. Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [1998] ©1998 1 online resource (321 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- I. The Awakening of a Sense of Responsibility (1881-1900) -- 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": Missions 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 Sikorski (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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023) Physicians Poland Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. bisacsh Biography, Child protection, Diplomacy, International cooperation, Poland, Public health, US. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998 9783110780550 https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633865675?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633865675 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789633865675/original |
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