About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Marcel Junod, Carl Ruedi, Paul Tournier, Alexandre Yersin, Eugen Bleuler, Arnold Rikli, Louis Appia, Anthony of Sourozh, Eugen Bircher, Samuel Widmer, Jean-Luc Darbellay, Patrick Aebischer, Wilhelm His, Sr., Hans Jenny, Marie Heim-Vogtlin, Bernhard Schaller, Thomas Zeltner, Enrique Favez, Hans Hunziker, Johann Rudolf Schneider, Erich Hintzsche, Daniel Vasella, Sigismond Jaccoud, Heinrich Frenkel, Francois Naville, Lucius Ruedi, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Jacques-Louis Reverdin, Hermann Eichhorst, Gustav Huguenin, Ludwig Georg Courvoisier, Monika Hauser, Hermann Sahli, Jean-Louis Prevost, Friedrich Goll, Rudolf Ulrich Kronlein, Gaspard Vieusseux, Marthe Voegeli, Johann Jacob Roemer, Alphonse Crespo, Robert Hegglin, Hugo Steiner, August Socin, Fritz Muller, Moritz Roth, Paul Robert Bing, Wilhelm Loffler, Michel Fernex. Excerpt: Marcel Junod (May 14, 1904 - June 16, 1961) was a Swiss doctor and one of the most accomplished field delegates in the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). After medical school and a short position as a surgeon in Mulhouse, France, he became an ICRC delegate and was deployed in Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, and in Europe as well as in Japan during World War II. In 1947, he wrote a book with the title Warrior without Weapons. about his experiences. After the war, he worked for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) as chief representative in China, and settled back in Europe in 1950. He founded the anaesthesiology department of the Cantonal Hospital in Geneva and became the first professor in this discipline at the University of Geneva. In 1952, he was appointed a member of the ICRC and, after many more missions for this institution, was Vice-President from 1959 until his death in 1961. Marcel Junod as an i...
