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Title:Dust to dust: a doctor's view of famine in Africa
Author:Heiden, David
Year:1992
Pages:209
Language:English
Series:Visual studies
City of publisher:Philadelphia
Publisher:Temple University Press
ISBN:0877229120
Geographic terms:Sudan
Ethiopia
Subjects:refugees
famine
Abstract:In this book the author, an American physician, shows the refugee camps of eastern Sudan, where the reality of medical work dissolved into the haunting experience of being part of the catastrophic Ethiopian famine of 1985. Through personal journal entries and photographs, he reveals the horror of the camps, the inhumane morass of bureaucracy and political partisanship, and the fight for survival among people whose situation the rest of the world viewed as hopeless. He recounts a series of disasters - political, climactic, and medical - that culminate in near-total social and personal breakdown.
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