For the Good of Humanity

Ludwik Rajchman, Medical Statesman

Marta A. Balińska (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

1998
Central European University Press (Verlag)
978-963-9116-17-7 (ISBN)

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Ludwik Rajchman, an exponent of humanitarian intervention and a defender of colonized people, inspired the creation of WHO and UNICEF. This biography, written by his great-granddaughter, uses family archives and documentary sources to tell the story of his life.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction

I. The Awakening of a Sense of Responsibility (1881-1990)
II. The Dream of a Social-Cultural Revolution (1900-1906)
III. Towards Independence
IV. Fighting Epidemics (1918-1922)
V. The Health Organization: The Spirit of Invention
VI. A "Bold Game": Mission to China (1929-1934)
VII. Towards Catastrophe: The Thirties
VIII. From Geneva to Nanking: The Common Cause of the Democratic World (1939)
IX. Delegate of Sikorksi (1939-1940)
X. An "Undertaking Strewn with Adventures" : The Soong-Rajchman Lobby (1940-1944)
XI. A Melancholy World
XII. The Watershed (1944-1946)
XIII. An Emergency Fund for Children (1947-1965)
XIV. A Pole on International Assignment

Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.1998
Verlagsort	Budapest
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 234 mm
Gewicht	641 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	963-9116-17-3 / 9639116173
ISBN-13	978-963-9116-17-7 / 9789639116177
Zustand	Neuware