Title Bethune in Spain / Roderick Stewart and Jesús Majada

Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 169 pages) : illustrations, portraits Contents The Roots -- Spain -- The Canadian Service -- The Voice of Protest -- The Servicio Canadiense Expands -- The Ma'laga-Almeri'a Road -- New Projects -- Unravelling -- The Return -- Other Horizons -- Appendix A. Bethune and Dura'n i Jordà -- Appendix B. Foreign Members of the Instituto Summary Norman Bethune (1890-1939) was a man who had everything, and yet had nothing. Although he had achieved international prominence as a surgeon, he was unhappy in his personal life and deeply frustrated by a failed attempt to introduce medicare to Canada. An uncompromising humanitarian in search of a cause, Bethune became immersed in the Spanish Civil War. In Bethune in Spain, Roderick Stewart and Jesús Majada recount Bethune's achievements in Spain and the events that led to his decision to assist the Loyalist forces. The narrative contains Bethune's letters and reports, some of them reproduced here for the first time, as well as newspaper articles, and interviews with him. It covers his creation and operation of a mobile blood transfusion unit, his rescue of fleeing Loyalist civilians during the Malaga-Almeria road tragedy, and his efforts to aid children orphaned by the War. It also deals with the gruelling public-speaking tour Bethune undertook on his return to Canada in 1937 to plead for intervention in support of democracy in Spain and to raise awareness of atrocities committed against civilians by the fascist-backed Spanish Nationalists. Illustrated with photographs from Bethune's seven months in Spain, Bethune in Spain is a poignant portrait of an early advocate for universal health care, an unwavering communist, and a crusader for the Spanish Republican cause Notes Includes newspaper articles, printed interviews, personal letters, and reports Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index Notes English Subject Bethune, Norman. Bethune, Norman -- Travel -- Spain SUBJECT Bethune, Norman Bethune, Norman fast Subject Physicians -- Canada -- Biography Philanthropists -- Canada -- Biography Communists -- Canada -- Biography Surgery. General Surgery surgeries (health facilities) surgery (health care function) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical. MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General. Surgery Communists Medical care Military participation -- Canadian Philanthropists Physicians Travel SUBJECT Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, Canadian Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Medical care Spain -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126046 Canada Subject Canada Spain Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Majada Neila, Jesús ISBN 9780773592261 0773592261 9780773592278 077359227X

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