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When altruism is wrongly used as a shield Review by Steve Fouch - CMF Head of Allied Professions Ministries Katherine Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (1) is riding high in the aftermath of its Oscar nomination, it is interesting to reflect that the film got at least one thing wrong in its telling...
Review by Steve Fouch - CMF Head of Allied Professions Ministries Health goals unlikely to be met With only two years left before they are supposed to be met, it looks like a mixed bag of results for the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) The major goal of halving the number of...
John Caroe PRIME 2002 £5 Pb 60pp ISBN 978 0 95595 271 5 Written to convey the early years of PRIME (Partnerships in International Medical Education), PRIME Calling recounts briefly the early coming together of a group of Christian doctors in Sussex who wanted to'reconcile [their] professional responsibilities with [their]...
A Practical Theology of Salvation Army Health Ministry Dean Pallant Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2012 £16.00 Pb 222pp ISBN-10: 1610979230 Dean Pallant, Head of International Health Services for the Salvation Army, looks at the place of faith-based organisations in providing health services in the developing world and asks...
Nurses: challenged and inspired The first nurses' summer school brought together a dozen Chrsitian nurses to wrestle with the theological and professional core of nursing. The event was held at Tyndale House in Cambridge, coordinated by the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics. CMF's John Wyatt led us through detailed...
Review by Steve Fouch, CMF Head of Allied Professions Ministries Pension arrangements considered 'unfair and unnecessary' prompted the BMA to call its members out on the first industrial action since 1975. The walkout on 21 June followed a strong response to a recent ballot. (1) Public support for the strike...
Review by Steve Fouch CMF Head of Allied Professions Ministries The last year has seen some significant changes relating to global major health problems. We saw that maternal mortality in the developing world was less than had been previously reported, (1) there were improvements in child health (2) and...
This book is part autobiography and part an exploration of one of the great global issues of our time. The story outlines how Susie came to faith, and as a consequence gave up the promise of a career in dancing to become a nurse. That opened the doorway for her...
Over twenty years ago, the Indian writer Amartya Sen wrote about the 'missing millions' of girls in India, speculating that a deeply entrenched bias towards boys rather than girls would lead to neglect of girl children that would compound the gender imbalance. (1) Twenty years later, there are regions of...
