Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of M?decins Sans Fronti?res

by Renee C. Fox

Book Overview

Pioneering medical sociologist Ren e C. Fox spent nearly twenty years conducting extensive ethnographic research within M decins Sans Fronti res/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), a private international medical humanitarian organization that was created in 1971 and awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1999. Drawing on unprecedented access to MSF staff meetings, doctors, and field workers, Fox weaves a rich tapestry of the MSF experience with emerging...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142141354X
• ISBN13: 9781421413549
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.5"