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For the good of humanity : Ludwik Rajchman, medical statesman
Vie pour l'humanitaire. English
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Biography of Ludwig Rajchman who was an exponent of humanitarian intervention and a defender of colonized people. He inspired the creation of WHO and UNICEF, of which he was the first chairman.
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- Creator
- Marta A. Balinska ; translated by Rebecca Howell and revised by the author
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Budapest : Central European University Press, 1998
- ©1998
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- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9639116173, 9789639116177, 9789633865675, 9633865670
- OCLC
- ocm40043584, on1295278596, on1338020402, on1293059058
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- I. The Awakening of a Sense of Responsibility (1881-1900) -- 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": Missions 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 Sikorski (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