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Doctors Without Borders

Their humanitarian mission has long been two-fold: medical care and bearing witness.

10/02/2014 | Rating NR

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Doctors Without Borders

Clip: 10/2/2014 | 7m 59s

Their humanitarian mission has long been two-fold: medical care and bearing witness.

For decades now, the mission of this Nobel-Prize-winning humanitarian group has been “medical care and bearing witness.” But bearing witness has had to be tempered by real-life considerations, observes medical sociologist Renee Fox. “When they were young, they thought witnessing was an unmitigated virtue. As they matured they came to see how complex the ramifications of witnessing might be.”

10/02/2014 | Rating NR

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