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Highlights
- On the Fringe is a deeply-moving memoir, a reflective and soul-baring account of the author's extraordinary journey as a professional who helped people from dying of AIDS, cholera, and other diseases across the globe.
- Author(s): Edward C Green
- 316 Pages
- Social Science, Anthropology
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About the Book
On the Fringe is the soul-baring of an anthropologist who has helped keep people from dying from AIDS, cholera, and other major diseases across the globe.
Book Synopsis
On the Fringe is a deeply-moving memoir, a reflective and soul-baring account of the author's extraordinary journey as a professional who helped people from dying of AIDS, cholera, and other diseases across the globe. As an anthropologist, Green worked on every inhabited continent, giving the reader an on-the-ground look at how we aid developing nations. Chapters take readers to one exotic locale after another, describing gypsies in Montenegro, sex workers in Tanzania, disease researchers in Bangladesh, spirit mediums in Africa, and Samaritans in Palestine.
Though highly successful throughout his career, Green was plagued since childhood with insecurity, rebellion, and at times frightening depressions. Coming from a highly-privileged background-his father was an Assistant Secretary of State-his inner demons began, at an early age, to tell him he was no damned good, a fraud, and a failure. Anyone who has ever fallen victim to "the imposter syndrome" will relate to the author's lifelong struggle to overcome feelings of anxiety and incompetence and embrace his achievements.
Review Quotes
"In this equally disturbing and uplifting book, Edward C. Green lays bare the self-doubt that dogged his decades of high-powered and highly effective public health consulting. Green's body of written and consulting work has influenced the response to public health emergencies by governments across the world." -H Russell Bernard, University of Florida