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Publisher: Orient BlackSwan (2012)  
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A newly qualified doctor, Lee Jong-wook, offers his services treating leprosy patients at St Lazarus Village outside his home town, Seoul. Here he finds both direction for his future work and his wife, like himself a volunteer.

Desmond Avery describes Lee Jong-wook???s international adventures from Korea to Hawaii as a postdoctoral student, then to American Samoa as an emergency room clinician, and to Fiji as a World Health Organization medical officer for leprosy. As Lee???s WHO responsibilities expand to other areas, they take him to the Philippines, and then to Switzerland where, in 2003, he is elected Director-General of WHO, the first Korean to head an international organisation.

Through this account of Lee Jong-wook???s career in health and politics, the author touches upon many important questions: Will there be a next global pandemic of deadly influenza? To what extent are AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria controllable? Who will foot the bill for polio eradication?

The biography also yields important insights into international public health policy-making.

The book contains 26 photographs, in colour and in black and white, on art paper, covering various phases of Lee Jong-wook???s life.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: ???This Great Doctor???
PART I: 1945???1979???Korea
    1. ???Our Longing is for Reunion???
    2. ???An Adventure of Friendship???
    3. St Lazarus
    4. Chuncheon
PART II: 1979???2003???The Pacific and the World Health Organization
    1. Honolulu, Pago-Pago
    2. WHO, Suva??????What a Change!???
    3. Manila??? ???An Astute and Capable Manager???
    4. Geneva
    5. ???Want to be Reassigned????
PART III: 2003???2006???Director-General
    1. Transition
    2. Shock and SHOC
    3. Progress
    4. Social and Other Determinants
    5. Celebrity and Travel
    6. Revolt and Leisure
    7. ???The Boss Has Collapsed???
  • Epilogue
  • Annex
  • Index

Specifications of Lee Jong-Wook: A Life in Health and Politics (Hardcover)

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Author Desmond Avery
Book Details
Publisher Orient BlackSwan
Publication Year 2012
ISBN-13 9788125046172
ISBN-10 8125046178
Language English
Binding Hardcover
Number of Pages 300 Pages

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    Book: Lee Jong-Wook: A Life in Health and Politics by Desmond Avery
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