Bethune in Spain

Year Published:  2014
Pages:  179pp   Price:  29.95   Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX18327

After getting divorced, being diagnosed with tuberculosis, and failing to introduce medicare to Canada, Norman Bethune left this country. In 1935, the Spanish Civil War began, and Bethune, who supported the Rupublican government during the war, was determined to offer his medical services. He went on to become recognized internationally as a surgeon and for creating and operating a mobile blood transfusion unit.