Reveals how many of the doctors of the International Medical Relief Corps in China began as physicians without national borders, yet quickly became men and women without countries and ultimately enemy aliens of all of the combatants in World War II. Still, they intrepidly pursued their work against amazing odds providing models of heroism and valour.
Both before and during World War II, the Nazis restricted the rights of Jewish and communist doctors. Some fought back, first by fighting against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War and then by helping the Chinese in their struggle against Japan. There were, however, two rival factions in China. One favored Chiang Kai-shek (the nationalists) and the other, the communists--and 27 foreign medical personnel were caught between them. Amidst poverty, war and corruption, living conditions were poor and traveling was hazardous.
This book follows members of the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps through the war as they became enemy aliens and pursued their work despite the perils. These doctors had a keen sense of public health needs and contributed to the recognition and management of infectious diseases and nutritional disorders, all the while denouncing corruption, inhumanity and inequality.
“"Every page of this scholarly book is chock full of information...a gripping, detailed, heavily researched and illustrated story, well worth the telling"-- Points East .”
“Every page of this scholarly book is chock full of information...a gripping, detailed, heavily researched and illustrated story, well worth the telling”—Points East.
Robert Mamlok, M.D. is a clinical professor of pediatrics at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. He is the son of one of the physicians who joined the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps in 1939 and co-founder of the Friends of the International Medical Relief Corps. He lives in Lubbock, Texas.
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