Author: LITTLE, JOHN
Title: Catherines's Gift - Inside the World of Dr. Catherine Hamlin
Description: Sydney, Pan Macmillan. 2008, First. (ISBN: 9780330425988). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy. 271 pages. 33 coloured photographs. Dr. Catherine Hamlin has been hailed as a living national treasure and one of the greatest Australians. Since 1959 she has lived and worked in Ethiopia, helping the victims of fistulas - devastating injuries caused by obstructed labour in childbirth, which condemn women to a lifetime of incapacity and degradation. The surgery she pioneered has allowed tens of thousands of sufferers to return to a normal life after being shunned by their families and communities. The hospitals she has set up in her adopted country now act as teaching centres for obstetricians and surgeons from developing countries around the globe. B2C. As New/No Jacket.

Keywords: Obstetrics, Fistula, Ethiopia, 9780330425988


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