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Benjamin Oren Black

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in Manchester, The United Kingdom

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel

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Dr Benjamin Black is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist and a specialist advisor to international aid organisations - including Médecins Sans Frontières. His focus on sexual, reproductive and maternal healthcare for populations in times of crisis has taken him to many countries working with humanitarian organisations, UN bodies and government departments. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic he provided frontline healthcare to pregnant women and developed international guidelines. Benjamin was a member of the expert panel for the inquiry into racial injustice in UK maternity care.

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Benjamin Black liked Bethany Shiell's review of Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: The Untold Story: "Really interesting account of an OBGYN in the ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. Powerful, tragic, and thought-provoking."
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Benjamin Black liked Moo's review of Belly Woman: Birth, Blood and Ebola: The Untold Story: "A must read. "
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Benjamin Black and 1 other person liked Casey Eberl's review of Belly Woman: "Loved the focus on women’s health and contraception, and the critiques of humanitarian response in general. Read it on mission though, so lost points because was a bit heavy to read about being on mission while on mission. "
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Benjamin Black liked Kim Fontaine's review of Belly Woman: "As a new humanitarian worker myself who started working with MSF a year ago, this book has profoundly shaken me. At times, I could read my own day-to-day experiences described in very precise and accurate words, and I marvelled at the similarities be" Read more of this review »
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A powerful, and eye-opening book that will stay with me for a long time. Highly recommended. The Ayatollah’s Gaze is one of those rare books that manages to be both informative and utterly gripping. From the first page, it combines sharp analysis with ...more
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“Life and death are not discreet states of being; there is a twilight through which we each must travel. Her body, spirit and mind were trying to leave, but the wonders of medicine refused to open the door.”
― Benjamin Oren Black, Belly Woman

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“The disease moves within human suffering”
― Benjamin Oren Black, Belly Woman

tags: ebola, epidemic, human-suffering, poverty

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