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Sudan's Nuba Mountains people under siege : accounts by humanitarians in the battle zone
- Title
- Sudan's Nuba Mountains people under siege : accounts by humanitarians in the battle zone / edited by Samuel Totten ; foreword by Caroline Baroness Cox ; afterword by Israel W. Charny.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Totten, Samuel
- Description
- xvii, 263 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "This collection of first-person accounts chronicles the experiences of 13 humanitarians who travelled to Sudan to provide food, medical care and spiritual support to the besieged people of the Nuba Mountains. The essayists describe in detail the tragedies of the current civil war in the state of South Kordofan"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Missionaries
- Medical personnel
- Philanthropists
- Visitors, Foreign
- Humanitarian assistance
- Missionaries > Sudan > Kurdufān al-Janūbīyah > Biography
- Sudan > History > Darfur Conflict, 2003- > Personal narratives
- Nuba (African people) > Social conditions
- History
- Kurdufān al-Janūbīyah (Sudan) > Social conditions
- War crimes > Sudan > Kurdufān al-Janūbīyah
- Sudan > Kurdufān al-Janūbīyah
- Social conditions
- Medical personnel > Sudan > Kurdufān al-Janūbīyah > Biography
- Darfur Conflict (Sudan : 2003- )
- Personal narratives
- 2003
- Philanthropists > Sudan > Kurdufān al-Janūbīyah > Biography
- Biography
- Visitors, Foreign > Sudan > Kurdufān al-Janūbīyah > Biography
- Humanitarian assistance > Sudan > Kurdufān al-Janūbīyah
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Personal narratives.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Glossary -- A love for the Nuba people / Tomo Križnar -- Doing God's work / Ryan Boyette -- On the frontlines of medicine / Tom Catena, M.D. -- In the service of Christ : my "tours" in the Nuba Mountains / Sister Deirdre M. Byrne, M.D. -- A son of the Nuba : from forced exile to my return as a humanitarian / George Tutu -- Confronting war crimes in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan / Matt Chancey -- A moral imperative : from conducting research in the Nuba Mountains to hauling food to those in most critical need / Samuel Totten -- Sojourns through worlds of suffering / John C. Jefferson -- Doctoring in the Nuba Mountains during wartime / John P. Sutter, M.D. -- Medical missions to the Nuba war zone / Corry Chapman, M.D. -- Sowing seeds of peace : my life at Mother of Mercy Hospital / Margaret Camarca -- A small town doctor responds to the needs of the Nuba / Louis Perrinjaquet, M.D.
- Call Number
- Sc F 17-130
- ISBN
- 9781476667225
- 1476667225
- LCCN
- 2016051900
- OCLC
- 954427001
- Title
- Sudan's Nuba Mountains people under siege : accounts by humanitarians in the battle zone / edited by Samuel Totten ; foreword by Caroline Baroness Cox ; afterword by Israel W. Charny.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2003
- Added Author
- Totten, Samuel, editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 17-130