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Un léopard sur le garrot
Chroniques d'un médecin nomade
2008
First Published
3.81
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Médecin des hôpitaux, pionnier de l'humanitaire "sans frontières", écrivain, prix Goncourt 2001, aujourd'hui ambassadeur de France au Sénégal, Jean-Christophe Rufin mène sa vie au grand galop. Selon une image tirée d'un poème de Senghor, il semble aller comme un cheval qu'un léopard aurait saisi au garrot. Pourtant, sous l'apparente diversité de cette existence, on distingue une unité profonde, née de la fidélité à une seule passion : la médecine, vécue comme un engagement total dans une discipline moins scientifique qu'humaniste. Voyage dans une vie, ce récit, en tirant sur ce fil qu'est la médecine, fait défiler sous nos yeux trente ans de notre histoire, d'un point à l'autre de la planète. De nouveau, l'auteur de Rouge Brésil et de L'Abyssin offre au lecteur une belle aventure. Mais, cette fois-ci, c'est la sienne.
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Jean-Christophe Rufin
Jean-Christophe Rufin
Author · 23 books

Jean-Christophe Rufin is a French doctor and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger and one of the founders of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without borders). He was Ambassador of France in Senegal from 2007 to June 2010. Rufin was born in Bourges, Cher in 1952. An only child, he was raised by his grandparents, because his father had left the family and his mother worked in Paris. His grandfather, a doctor and member of the French Resistance during World War II, had been imprisoned for two years at Buchenwald. In 1977, after medical school, Rufin went to Tunisia as a volunteer doctor. He led his first humanitarian mission in Eritrea,where he met Azeb, who became his second wife. A graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Political Sciences) in 1986, he became advisor to the Secretary of State for Human Rights and published his first book, Le Piège humanitaire (The Humanitarian Trap), an essay on the political stakes of humanitarian action. As a doctor, he has led numerous missions in eastern Africa and Latin America. He is former vice-president of Médecins Sans Frontières and former president of the non-governmental organization Action Against Hunger.

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