Description: Further DetailsTitle: Norman Bethune in SpainCondition: NewSubtitle: Commitment, Crisis and ConspiracyEAN: 9781845195472ISBN: 9781845195472Publisher: Liverpool University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/23/2013Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 566gAuthor: David LethbridgeGenre: HistoryBook Series: LSE Studies in Spanish HistoryDescription: Born to fanatical religious zealots, deeply wounded by an unloving mother and a weak father whom he hated, Norman Bethune struggled throughout his life to overcome deep emotional scars. Sexually inhibited, given to outbursts of near psychopathic rage, this wounded doctor healed himself through healing others. In the mid-1930s, Bethune emerged as a renowned surgeon fighting the twin plagues of disease and fascism. When Franco launched his offensive, Bethune travelled quickly to Madrid, organised a mobile transfusion service and, often under fire, brought blood to the wounded at the front. David Lethbridge presents the complex of Bethune's unique activities and personality as they intersected with history: His engagement with medical, political, and military civil war players, and the Communist party; his cadaver blood transfusion work with the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, Hermann Muller; the profound effect that the Malaga atrocity had on him, and the role it played in his attempt to build "children's cities" outside war zones; his meeting with Graham Spry a high-ranking functionary in the Canadian social democratic party, the CCF; the unravelling of Bethune's romantic relationship with the Swedish journalist Kasja Rothman; the implications of his friendship with Henning Sorensen, a possibly secret member of the Communist Party of Canada, and the circumstances of the conspiracy that led to Bethune's ejection from Spain. The book concludes with Bethune's political tour throughout North America raising funds and public awareness on behalf of the Spanish Republic.Topic: Military History, MedicineRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Norman Bethune in Spain
Title: Norman Bethune in Spain
Subtitle: Commitment, Crisis and Conspiracy
EAN: 9781845195472
ISBN: 9781845195472
Release Date: 01/23/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Topic: Medicine
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Norman Bethune in Spain : Commitment, Crisis and Conspiracy
Language: English
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Physicians, Medical, Political, Historical
Publication Year: 2013
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Author: David Lethbridge
Series: Lse Studies in Spanish History Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover