A Doctor's Quest: The Struggle for Mother-And-Child Health Around the Globe

by Gretchen Roedde

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother and child health in the developing world.

Recounting medical missions in half of the thirty countries in which she has worked for the past twenty-five years in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific - from Darfur in Sudan to Papua New Guinea and Bhutan - Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics and bureaucratic red tape on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459706439
• ISBN13: 9781459706439
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Dundurn Group
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"