Tillys Shelf | Bookish Breakfast 3: Faulkner, War Doctor and MSF @tillysshelf | Uploaded September 2019 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
Bookish Breakfast is an informal morning discussion of what I've been reading in the past week, which in this case has mostly been related to a course that I'm just starting. There's going to be a big change in my reading over the next five months to focus heavily on health care in tropical and humanitarian contexts so if that's not an interest to you please do ignore this channel for a while.
Hightower's comments on religion:
I couldn't find all of the extracts that I had thought there were but here are two that seem to illustrate his changing perspective on the church.
"And what is the church for, if not to help those who are foolish but who want the truth?" p.530 of my edition
'He seems to see the churches of the world like a rampart, like one of those barricades of the middleages planted with dead and sharpened stakes, against truth and against that peace in which to sin and be forgiven which is the life of man.' pp.537-8 of my edition.
Books mentioned:
Light in August by William Faulkner (1932)
Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed edited by Magone, Newman and Weissman (2011)
Dispatches (Issue 94, August 2019)
War Doctor by David Nott (2019)
Tropical Medicine Microscopy by Monica Cheesbrough (2016)
Associations mentioned:
Medicins Sans Frontiers/Doctors Without Borders msf.org.uk
My course is at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine lshtm.ac.uk
Bookish Breakfast is an informal morning discussion of what I've been reading in the past week, which in this case has mostly been related to a course that I'm just starting. There's going to be a big change in my reading over the next five months to focus heavily on health care in tropical and humanitarian contexts so if that's not an interest to you please do ignore this channel for a while.
Hightower's comments on religion:
I couldn't find all of the extracts that I had thought there were but here are two that seem to illustrate his changing perspective on the church.
"And what is the church for, if not to help those who are foolish but who want the truth?" p.530 of my edition
'He seems to see the churches of the world like a rampart, like one of those barricades of the middleages planted with dead and sharpened stakes, against truth and against that peace in which to sin and be forgiven which is the life of man.' pp.537-8 of my edition.
Books mentioned:
Light in August by William Faulkner (1932)
Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed edited by Magone, Newman and Weissman (2011)
Dispatches (Issue 94, August 2019)
War Doctor by David Nott (2019)
Tropical Medicine Microscopy by Monica Cheesbrough (2016)
Associations mentioned:
Medicins Sans Frontiers/Doctors Without Borders msf.org.uk
My course is at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine lshtm.ac.uk
