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Flight for Life: An American Company´s Dramatic Rescue of Nigerian Burn Victims
Richard D. Stewart
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Description for Flight for Life: An American Company´s Dramatic Rescue of Nigerian Burn Victims
Hardback. Offers an account of one of the most gripping rescue missions in African history, told by a doctor involved in saving the lives of Nigerian workers who became victims of a tragic American chemical company explosion. Num Pages: 188 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 1KBB; 3JJPN; BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 517.
Flight for Life is the heart-stopping account of one of the most gripping rescue missions in African history. Told by a doctor involved in saving the lives of Nigerian workers who became victims of a tragic American chemical company explosion; Dr. Stewart and his colleague moved mountains and cut red tape to fly patients to one of the premiere burn centers in the United States.
At the time of the S. C. Johnson Company chemical plant explosion in 1982, there were no burn care centers in Africa. Its hospitals lacked the most basic accommodations for burn victims and ... Read more
Flight for Life is the heart-stopping account of one of the most gripping rescue missions in African history. Told by a doctor involved in saving the lives of Nigerian workers who became victims of a tragic American chemical company explosion; Dr. Stewart and his colleague moved mountains and cut red tape to fly patients to one of the premiere burn centers in the United States.
At the time of the S. C. Johnson Company chemical plant explosion in 1982, there were no burn care centers in Africa. Its hospitals lacked the most basic accommodations for burn victims and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SKYHORSE PUBLISHING
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
517g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781616082277
SKU
V9781616082277
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Richard D. Stewart
Richard D. Stewart, MD, is a specialist in both internal medicine and medical toxicology and has served as a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin since 1966. He holds several medical patents, including the hollow fiber artificial kidney. He is the author of Leper Priest of Moloka'i: The Father Damien Story and has written more than 250 scientific papers. ... Read more
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