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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [1998] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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