IN THE SHADOW OF TYRANNY:

About the Book

This physician’s true stories carry the reader from his roots in rural America into a turbulent Congo devastated by dictator Mobutu’s excesses; into refugee camps on Cambodia’s border, a Cambodia ravaged by dictator Pol Pot; into the Artibonite Valley beside Haitian peasants victimized by dictator Baby Doc Duvalier’s bungling; and into an interlude working with the Lakota, Chippewa, and Quinault Tribes of Native Americans. Medical Doctor Jim Fett says, “I want the reader to garner a sense of sharing and searching in the lives and stories of these persons who deal with victory and defeat, life and death, healing and hope.”

About the Author

James D. Fett, MD, is a physician whose international medical career had taken him from rural Midwestern American origins to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand’s Cambodian border, Haiti, and several Native American Reservations in the USA. In all of those areas he ahs worked with medically underserved people, with the poorest of the poor, with displaced and refugee populations, and since 1 February 2000 has begun on the advancing edge of research in Haiti into a devastating heart disease of pregnancy, called peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCN). He continues to collaborate with researchers on PPCM at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA, Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa, Mayo Clinic Medical School in Rochester, MN, and Harefield Hospital, London, England.