To Bear Witness -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Locations -- The Middle East -- Beirut's Smell of DeathThe New York Times, 1982 -- A Doctor's Reflections on the Libyan SituationAmerica, 1986 -- Somali Refugee Camp - 1980 -- Somalia -- For a U.S. Role in Somalia -- Palm Sunday in Somalia -- Starving Refugees Overwhelm Somalia -- A Somali Postscript -- Nicaragua - 1972 -- Nicaragua -- The Nicaraguan Earthquake -- The Price for Differing With the U.S. Is Death -- Of Constitutions, Democracy, Medicine,and Diplomacy -- Holidays in Nicaragua -- Fasting and Medicine in Nicaragua -- The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) - 2002 -- Ireland -- A Perverse Silence -- Red Stains on the Emerald Isle: Can Only Blood Wash Them Out? -- A Deathless Dream -- Part Two: Academia -- New York - 2004 -- New Realities, New Frontiers -- The Peculiar Élan -- The University and Revolution -- The Symbolism of Salamanca -- Somalia - The Constant Fear of Death - 1979 -- Grief and Renewal -- To Bind our Wounds -- Loaded Words -- Dreams and Travel -- A Necessary Balance -- Part Three: Continuity -- Somalia - 1980 -- Health on the Horn of Africa -- The United Nations - 1974 -- The Untapped Resource: Medicine and Diplomacy -- Irish Essays -- Threads for a Tapestry -- Southern Sudan - 1977 -- Famine -- The AIDS Epidemic -- A Bridge to Peace -- Imminent Peril: Public Health inDeclining Economy -- A Framework for Survival: Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters -- Northern Somalia - 1995 -- Clearing the Fields: Solutions to theLandmine Crisis -- Preventive Diplomacy -- Southern Sudan - 1981 -- Traditions, Values, and Humanitarian Action -- Technology for Humanitarian Action -- Books by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. cited in this section -- Part Four: Personal -- The Influence of Yeats -- Childhood -- University Days.

The Sudan -- Nicaragua -- Conclusion -- Point Lookout - 1957 -- On Being Short -- Suffering and Pain -- A Medical Student's Impressions of India -- The Descendants of the High Kings of Ireland -- Myths, Dreams, and Reality -- It Ain't Necessarily So -- An Evolving Tapestry -- Pope John Paul II and the author - 1982 -- To Bear Witness -- Sannes woods - 2003 -- For Your 65th.