Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Compagnie des Colonies suisses de Sétif

  • Humanitarian for all: The life of Henry Dunant

    Stephen Kosnar Lima, Peru   Henry Dunant 1855. ICRC on Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0. In his late thirties and bankrupt, Henry Dunant lived in abject poverty, on occasion being forced to eat bread crusts and sleep outdoors in Paris. It is a bitter slice of one man’s history, particularly given that only a few years…