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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 362.1109633092 EAN: 9781854246738 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1854246739 Label: Lion UK Manufacturer: Lion UK Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 308 Publication Date: October 01, 2004 Publisher: Lion UK Studio: Lion UK Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Catherine and Reg Hamlin left Australia in 1959 on a short contract to establish a midwifery school in Ethiopia. Over 40 years later, Catherine is still there, running one of the most outstanding medical programs in the world. Through this work thousands of women have been able to resume a normal existence after living as outcasts. Catherine and Reg have successfully operated on over 20,000 women, and the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, the hospital they opened in 1975, has become a major teaching institution for surgeons from all over Ethiopia and the developing world. Since Reg's death, Catherine has continued their work, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. Set against the vivid backdrop of Ethiopia, this book is a moving and utterly compelling account of an extraordinary life. Average Rating:
 Rating: - What a great book!I found this book to be educational, heart-warming, heart-wrenching and entertaining all in one. I enjoyed learning about the history of Ethiopia, its culture and its people. The Hamlins are amazing people who took their love of medicine and passion for helping others and have literally transformed the lives of women in Ethiopia who without a fistula repair would be shunned and destitute. This is a great book, and I would encourage anyone to read it. Rating: - You are blessed with overwhelming riches. (me, too. Really)It is said that in some parts of the world the foulest curse that can be uttered is "May you be born again as a woman!" and after reading this story, I now understand why. We in the developed world have no idea what it would be like to be an Ethiopian Woman: betrothed as a toddler, married at nine (the groom promises not to have sex with his bride until she is "old enough." - ha, ha.), pregnant at twelve and left for four or five days, utterly alone, to try and give birth unaided. As in the developed ... Read More Rating: - All who read "Hospital by the River" liked it very muchI and my friends who have read "Hospital by the River" have all liked it very much. It tells about an Australian couple trained in obstetrics who went to Ethiopia and established aa hospital to help woman in Ethiopia who had suffered the bad effects of early child bearing. I believe it shows how the Christian life should be lived. Rating: - AmazingThis book tells a remarkable story. It is the autobiography of Dr. Catherine Hamlin and the work she and her husband have done to establish a hospital treating obstetric fistula in Ethiopia. What an amazing story. I had never heard of obstetric fistula till a few days ago. I did not know that so many young women (girls, really) in some parts of the world have child birth complications that cause holes in the vagina through which feces and urine leak constantly, leading to the women becoming abandoned ... Read More Rating: - Inspiring and compelling memoir of hope in times of despairSeldom has a missionary painted such a compelling portrait of hope from darkest despair as Dr. Catherine Hamlin in her inspiring memoir, THE HOSPITAL BY THE RIVER. When she and her husband, Reg, embarked on their careers in gynecology in Australia, they never dreamed their work would eventually take them halfway across the globe to the third world country of Ethiopia to establish a teaching hospital. Ethiopia's insistence on child-brides and the poor obstetric care in that country is responsible ... Read More 
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