War doctor : surgery on the front line / David Nott.

  • Nott, David (David M.)
Date:
2019
  • Books

About this work

Description

"For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major London teaching hospital. The conflicts he has worked in form a chronology of twenty-first-century combat: Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur, Congo, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Gaza and Syria."--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

London : Picador, 2019.

Physical description

359 pages ; 24 cm

Notes

Copy 1. Note: Signed by the author on title-page.

Contents

Preface -- The bomb factory -- Two epiphanies -- Welcome to Sarajevo -- Damage control -- Under African skies -- Flying in -- Trauma school -- Return to Syria -- Sniper city -- Lifeline -- The razor's edge -- Physician, heal thyself -- Escape from Aleppo.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Nott)
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1509837051
  • 9781509837052
  • 9781509837021
  • 1509837027
  • 9781509837038
  • 1509837035