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Operation Health: Surgical Care in the Developing World
Adam Kushner
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Description for Operation Health: Surgical Care in the Developing World
Paperback. This detailed and compassionate book will be of great interest to medical professionals, students, public health policy makers, philanthropic donors, and those with a general interest in global health. Editor(s): Kushner, Adam L. Num Pages: 128 pages, 18, 14 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1QFG; MBN; MN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 194.
A teenage mother arrives by donkey cart to a hospital after attempting to deliver her baby in the bush. A young father faces the loss of a leg after receiving a gunshot wound that will not heal. A man walks miles to a hospital for a pain in his side caused by an appendix that burst five days earlier. Without access to surgical resources, millions of people with conditions like these become disabled or die. In Operation Health, Adam L. Kushner argues that not only are severe medical conditions - like a strangulated hernia or obstetric fistula-treatable by surgical means ... Read more
A teenage mother arrives by donkey cart to a hospital after attempting to deliver her baby in the bush. A young father faces the loss of a leg after receiving a gunshot wound that will not heal. A man walks miles to a hospital for a pain in his side caused by an appendix that burst five days earlier. Without access to surgical resources, millions of people with conditions like these become disabled or die. In Operation Health, Adam L. Kushner argues that not only are severe medical conditions - like a strangulated hernia or obstetric fistula-treatable by surgical means ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Series
Operation Health
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421416694
SKU
V9781421416694
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Adam Kushner
Adam L. Kushner is an associate in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a lecturer in the Department of Surgery at Columbia University. The founding director of Surgeons OverSeas, he has offered surgical care to patients in conflict, post-conflict, and disaster settings around the world.
Reviews for Operation Health: Surgical Care in the Developing World
Makes a passionate plea for greater access to surgery and describes populations with potentially debilitating yet readily treatable conditions... Chapters are effectively written to combine human interest with essential technical detail. Doody's Review Service [Kushner] has weaved science, evidence, global surgery, and public health in a journalistic, readable style. In this 100 page account of the importance of surgery for ... Read more