For more than forty-five years, Kevin 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
across the globe.Physician, teacher, activist, diplomat, and
advocate, Cahill has touched many lives and helped right many
wrongs. In this book, he chronicles extraordinary achievements of
compassion and commitment. Bringing together a rich selection of
writingsaessays, op-ed pieces, speeches, and other works, many out
of print or hard to findahe crafts a fascinating self-portrait of a
life devoted to others.The writings reflect fully the range of
Cahillas passions. Reporting from places under siegeaLebanon,
Somalia, Nicaragua, Libya, and IrelandaCahill writes as a physician
and activist working to restore lives wounded by land mines or
threatened by violence and disease. Closer to home, there are his
visionary statements from the beginning of the AIDS epidemic,
powerful critiques of the politics of famine and public health, and
programs for new forms of humanitarian assistance to transform
health and human rights.Looking back as the Bronx-born son of an
Irish physician, he also touches on more personalabut no less
passionateaconcerns and on the impact on his life of the worlds of
pain and suffering in which he has traveled. Kevin M. Cahill, M.D.,
is Director of the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs
at Fordham University and President of the Center for International
Health and Cooperation in New York City. He is the author and
editor of many books, including Human Security for All: A Tribute
to Sergio Vieira de Mello and Technology for Humanitarian Action,
both in the Fordhamseries International Humanitarian Affairs.
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