ISBN: 9781921325250 - vula bevalile: letters from a young doctor (2 risultati)

Secondhand, Hardback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Maithri Goonetilleke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 136 Vula Bevalile: Letters from a Young Doctor is a collection of vignettes written over seven years by Australian doctor Maithri Goonetilleke, who has been contributing his time voluntarily in Swaziland-a country devastated by extreme poverty and the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Through the stories, the reader is taken on an incredible journey across a landscape of extreme adversity and medical and economic hardship. But it is the final, overwhelming sense of humanity that is most striking and empowering. The ultimate outcome for the reader is a profound understanding of a people with enormous resilience, pride, humility, and courage. This book calls on us to think again, to ask ourselves what we are doing in our own lives and why. Reading it, we are compelled to review what it is that propels us forward and to reflect on our own values, aspirations, and expectations, on what we ourselves are spending our lives struggling for. - Paul A. Komesaroff (Professor of Medicine and Director, Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society, Monash University, and Executive Director of Global Reconciliation, Australia). Secondhand, Hardback.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Book has a hint of wear to the edges and corners, and a gift inscription on the cover page, otherwise in near new condition. The dust jacket has light rubbing to covers, and a quarter inch closed tear at the bottom of the front cover. Aside from the items listed, this is a great copy that remains crisp, holds color well, and is now enclosed in an archival cover.…