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This mostly admiring portrait of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (aka MSF), the nonprofit that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, emphasizes the inner workings of the organization and is animated by interviews with mid-level staffers and by site visits to MSF projects in Angola, Afghanistan and Pakistan. In between, journalist Bortolotti traces the history of the world's largest independent medical humanitarian organization, whose genesis was the Biafran horrors of the late '60s. Histrionic founder Bernard Kouchner (whom Bortolotti didn't interview) left the group in 1979 after disputes about tactics; not until the early 1990s did MSF spread to North America. Only about a quarter of field volunteers are, in fact, doctors, and most staff are local hires rather than foreigners. MSF volunteers resist being described as heroic ("It's not noble; it's an attempt," one says) but acknowledge that the crucible of crisis does test character. Some stories (illustrated by stock-looking photos, including two color inserts) are grimly poignant: a middle-aged surgeon tells of relying on his lower-tech training to perform surgery in Sri Lanka and Liberia; a logistician describes how to negotiate with drugged-up child soldiers at a Sierra Leonian checkpoint. While Bortolotti could have been clearer, for example, on the mechanics of MSF's fund-raising apparatus, he notes that even critics of humanitarian aid admire MSF for attempting to intervene under seemingly impossible circumstances.
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*Starred Review* It may be difficult to read this book, not because it is poorly written--it is in fact the inspired opposite--but because it makes the meager number of volunteers comprising Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) look like the last hope for millions who suffer subhuman living conditions and death, visited upon them by tyrants and thugs more often than by natural disaster. Born in France nearly 30 years ago, MSF, known in the U.S. as Doctors without Borders, struggles to remain true to its philosophy of delivering humanitarian aid divorced from all political affiliation. Still, the notion that humanitarianism can be totally agenda free presents constant challenges for the international group as it struggles to dispense essential medical services to places where no other such providers dare to go. Bortolotti says the Congo is one of the "greatest humanitarian disasters of our time" and the South Sudan is "another planet"-- places where, but for MSF, there would be no hope for thousands. Much of what Bortolotti reports is noticeably absent from the daily headlines, so this eye-opening account is all the more chilling, and MSF's efforts achingly more compelling. Donna Chavez
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Stories that need telling, Oct. 14 2004
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This review is from: Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders (Hardcover)
I found this text to be an eye-opening look at some of the most troubled places on earth. Some of the stories were difficult to read due to their graphic nature but my complements to the author for portraying the truth in all its gore. I also found the accounts of the volunteers' motivations for doing what they do to be most interesting. Not what I expected; an excellent book.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 impersonal and repetitive, Fév 4 2005
This review is from: Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders (Hardcover)
I would say that Hope in Hell is a good read and an interesting book but I have to say that the style is very impersonal, very repetitive, very introductory and does not do justice to the many MSF volunteers who were interviewed for the book.
It is impersonal because there is little more than a name and perhaps the country of origin given as the stories of volunteers are told. I read this book right after reading the Fast Food Nation in which the writer describes his interview subjects in a manner that enables the reader to have a mental picutre and develop a deep relationship with them.
Hope in Hell reads as an introductory piece of writting. Half way through the book I still thought I was reading the introductory chapter.
The sotries in this book were tragic and could've and should've been written in a heart wrenching style but the writer failed to write it so.
I would recommend it as a book to skim through but not a book worth purchasing and adding to your collection.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 really enjoyed it, Oct. 2 2007
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This book is an excellent read -- I learned a lot about how MSF came to be and what they've been doing. And, how they stand apart from other int'l health relief agencies. But it's no dull history book! I really enjoyed the different stories from MSF volunteers trying to deliver care under every circumstance imaginable. Definitely recommeded!
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