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Le Médecin et le Dictateur

Le Médecin et le Dictateur

Pouliquen, Yves

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 273812044X
ISBN13: 9782738120441
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Published: Jan 10 2008
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: French
This amazing story occurred during that'seemingly faraway time when the Iron Curtain acted as an insurmountable barrier but not for everyone. In those years, many Eastern bloc political leaders were treated by the best Western physicians. While paying lip service to the superiority of communism, these leaders would nonetheless ensure that they benefited from Western medicine whose competence they were often unable to duplicate in their own countries. When their own health was at stake, political arguments were deftly swept aside.That was how the eminent French surgeon Yves Pouliquen went to Tirana and met Enver Hoxha, the dictator of the world's smallest Communist country. In this book, Pouliquen recounts the time he spent with Hoxha and describes what he saw of the regime, whose excesses and brutality were not fully revealed until its fall. Much has been written about Albania under Enver Hoxha, who remains an enI'ma. Few Westerners encountered him in nonofficial circumstances, making Pouliquen's book an exceptional document. Though curious to fI'd out more about his infamous patient, Pouliquen is not fooled by the dictator's apparent good nature. But can doctors refuse to treat the torturers that they otherwise combat? With his mordant wit, Doctor Pouliquen restores the atmosphere of acute paranoia that reigned among the dictator's followers and in the luxurious villas inhabited by the dignitaries of an impoverished, starving nation.A surgeon and a member of the French Academy, Yves Pouliquen was formerly Director of Ophthalmology at the Paris hospital l'Hôtel-Dieu. He is the author of La Transparence de l'oeil (1992), Un oculiste au siècle des Lumières (1999), Le Geste et l'Esprit (2003) and Madame de Sévigné et la medecine du Grand Siècle (2006).

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