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The Mind of Norman Bethune

出版	Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1977
主題	Biography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients)History / Asia / ChinaHistory / Europe / Spain
ISBN	08890241899780889024182
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BN_aAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"The Mind of Norman Bethune contains the most important and revealing writings by Norman Bethune himself, presented in a biographical context, and illustrated with over 100 related photographs; much of the material, and many of the pictures, are published here for the first time. Bethune's distinctive place in modern history is now, nearly 40 years after his death, fully acknowledged. As a Montreal surgeon in the 1930's, he was drawn to left-wing political commitment. Determined to act, he went to Spain at the outbreak of the Civil War, and set up a mobile blood transfusion service for the Loyalist forces which operated in the thick of the fighting. Shortly thereafter, in 1937, Dr. Bethune decided to go to China and aid as best he could Mao Tse-tung's forces and the Chinese people, who were then under attack by the Japanese. Organizing a mobile medical unit, and working under the most primitive and war-torn conditions, Bethune set an example of personal sacrifice and commitment which, after his death in November 1939, made a permanent impression on China. Mao Tse-tung wrote of Bethune in a memorial essay:' We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him.' Bethune was a complex, volatile man. His interests were not only medical and political, but literary and artistic as well, and are effectively revealed by his writing. In The Mind of Norman Bethune, the development of his character can be seen directly as can his passionate and paradoxical nature.' -Publisher