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Stewart, Roderick; Stewart, Sharon - Phoenix - 9780773540811 - V9780773540811
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Phoenix

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Description for Phoenix Paperback. Restless, dynamic, conflicted, a surgeon, an artist, and a writer, Norman Bethune was an extraordinary Canadian. Brilliant, yet erratic, Bethune's life was characterized by cycles of achievement and self-destruction and his adventurous spirit led him from the operating rooms of Montreal to the battlegrounds of Spain and China. Num Pages: 496 pages, 77 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGT; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 247 x 31. Weight in Grams: 814.
In Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune Roderick and Sharon Stewart provide the intriguing details of Bethune's controversial career as a surgeon, his turbulent personal life, his passionate crusade to eradicate tuberculosis, and his pioneering commitment to the establishment of medicare in Canada. They also examine the reasoning that led Bethune to embrace Marxism and show the depth of his faith in the triumph of communism over fascism - a commitment that drove him to take risk after risk and ultimately led to his death from an infection caught while performing battlefield surgery in remote northern China. Based on ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773540811
SKU
V9780773540811
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About Stewart, Roderick; Stewart, Sharon
Roderick Stewart, author of Bethune and The Mind of Norman Bethune, is a retired teacher of history. Sharon Stewart has over twenty-five years of experience as a writer and as a freelance editor in educational publishing.

Reviews for Phoenix
"Phoenix is a much enriched version of Bethune's life - eminently readable and riveting." Andree Levesque, McGill University "The authors have taken great care to review all the new information that has come to light and present their findings in a balanced, and effective manner." Larry W. Stephenson, professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery, Wayne State University "Phoenix will enable ... Read more

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