JONATHAN KAPLAN

Jonathan Kaplan ha sido cirujano de hospital, médico volante, oficial médico naval y cirujano de campo de batalla. Ha trabajado en lugares tan diversos como Birmania, Kurdistán, Estados Unidos, Mozambique, Inglaterra y Eritrea. Hospital de Campaña presenta un relato vivo y conmovedor de los distintos rostros de la Medicina que ha encontrado. En una mezcla de reportaje, confesion y descripcion, Kaplan habla del ejercicio de la Medicina y de sus deficiencias, porque esta no siempre es benigna o equilibrada. En sus extremos es un proceso de tratamiento de victimas, pues la vida es una guerra, y ser medico es prestar servicio a ella. Hospital de Campaña es una odisea medica inolvidable y un vigoroso examen de la paradoja que supone que para poder curar tenga que haber sufrimiento. Es, ademas, un intento personal de definir que significa ser medico y ser humano en esas zonas de conflicto.

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Winner of the Alan Paton Award and the South African Booksellers Choice AwardJonathan Kaplan has been a hospital surgeon, a flying doctor, a ships medical officer and a battlefield surgeon. He has worked in places as diverse as Burma, Kurdistan, America, Mozambique, England and Eritrea. The Dressing Station presents a vivid, moving account of the varied faces of medicine he has encountered. In a mixture of reportage, confession and exposition Kaplan talks about the practice of medicine and of its shortcomings, because medicine is not always benign or balanced. At its extremes it is a process of treating the casualties, for life is a war, and being a doctor is serving in that war.His account is born of two talents: to save lives and to bear witness. The result is a unique mixture of biography and reportage, both personal and clinicalTime Magazine

Surgery carries more individual responsibility than any other field of medicine. Jonathan Kaplan studied medicine in South Africa and, after working in a black township and being drafted by the South African army, he chose exile rather than serve the apartheid state. He travelled the globe in search of sanctuary, experiencing riots, tropical fevers, political upheaval and a jungle search for a lost friend. Kaplan landed eventually in Angola and took charge of a combat zone hospital, the only surgeon for 160,000 civilians, where he was exposed daily to the horrors of war. As a volunteer surgeon in Baghdad, he treated civilian casualties amid gunfights for control of hospitals, gangs of AK-47 wielding looters stripping pharmacies, and militant Shia groups harassing doctors out of operating rooms.Contact Wounds is an account of these travels. Immediate, haunting and wryly funny, the book is simultaneously a vivid illustration of how to mess up a promising medical career, and an account of survival Kaplans own as well as that of his patients. Kaplan describes his attempt to find his place in a world entering a time of instability and war, and the way in which his qualifications in trauma and uncertainty have made him a specialist in this centurys changed requirements.