Phoenix: The Life of Norman BethuneMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2011 - 479 Seiten 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. InPhoenix: The Life of Norman BethuneRoderick 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 extensive research in Canada, Spain, and China, and in-depth interviews with Bethune's family, friends, colleagues, and patients,Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethuneis the definitive Bethune biography for our time. |
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Childhood and Early Youth 18901907 | 3 |
Work and War September 1907February 1919 | 20 |
London 19191924 | 32 |
Detroit and Saranac Lake 19241927 | 46 |
Ray Brook and Montreal 19281931 | 73 |
Travels Montreal September 1931November 1933 | 88 |
Montreal Autumn 1933November 1935 | 104 |
Montreal December 1935October 1936 | 127 |
Montreal New York City OctoberDecember 1937 | 240 |
Hankou to Xian 7 February29 March 1938 | 252 |
Yanan JinChaJi 30 March19 July 1938 | 274 |
JinChaJi July 1938January 1939 | 297 |
JinChaJi December 1938June 1939 | 338 |
JinChaJi JulyNovember 1939 | 353 |
Epilogue | 369 |
Note on Sources | 379 |
Madrid November 1936January 1937 | 155 |
Maps | 156 |
Madrid Valencia Almería JanuaryFebruary 1937 | 177 |
Madrid Valencia MarchJune 1937 | 196 |
The Speaking Tour JuneOctober 1937 | 212 |
Notes | 381 |
Bibliography | 455 |
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A.A. MacLeod Agnes Smedley Almería Archibald Archives arrived asked began Beijing Bethune and Ewen Bethune’s blood transfusion blood transfusion service Brandtner Brown cable Canada Canadian CASD Cerrada China Aid Council China Nurse Chinese Coleman Communist Party comrades Courtesy BMH December Despite Detroit doctors documentary film documentary film Bethune Dong Eighth Route Army file for documentary Frances Bethune Hankou Hazen Sise Hebei Henning Sorensen hospital Ibid Instituto Japanese Jean Ewen Jin-Cha-Ji John Barnwell July kilometres knew later Ma Haide MacLeod Madrid Málaga Malcolm Marian Scott medicine military Montreal NFB interview NFB research file Nie Rongzhen Norman Bethune October operating patients Rongzhen Royal Victoria Sacré Coeur Sanidad Militar sent Smedley soldiers Songyankou Spain Spanish surgeon surgical taped interview Ted Allan Tim Buck told Toronto train Trudeau tuberculosis unit village weeks Worsley wounded wrote Yan'an