A new collection, "Concepts and Practice of Humanitarian Medicine," lays out the rationale, circumstances, and conditions under which humanitarian medicine can flourish. The book seeks to define the field of humanitarian medicine and includes new and previously-published articles and speeches that set out the principles of humanitarian medicine, starting with the idea of health as a human right, and examining topics such as quality of life, torture, and nuclear conflict. Contributors are all major world figures in health and human rights, including Nobel laureates Kofi Annan and Joseph Rotblat.
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Sun Yat Sen, a Chinese physician who died in 1925, challenged oppressive power structures and improved the lives of millions of his countrymen. "Physicians," he believed, "are the natural attorneys of the poor and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction."
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