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Social Justice and the Power of Compassion looks at how a single person, or a small organization, working at the grassroots level can make great strides in helping the marginalized and disenfranchised. Marguerite Guzman Bouvard weaves the personal stories of the founders and directors of such organizations as the Polaris Project, MADRE, and the Harpswell Foundation to show how they have dealt with social problems of many kinds that have been invisible for too long. From dealing with climate change to giving housing and giving medical care to the homeless these people and their organizations have created models that have been replicated around the country and successfully given widespread attention to these important issues.

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Social Justice and the Power of Compassion is a timely book that shows us how physicians across the country are concerned about gun shot wounds as a health problem, providing trauma care for the wounded, and also how to treat the homeless who suffer from so many illnesses. This book reveals how it is possible to help the marginalized and the traumatized so that can re-enter society as productive citizens. It also demonstrates that a caring relationship with a physician is a powerful form of healing. -- Isaac Schiff, MD, Joe Vincent Meigs Distinguished Professor of gynocology, Harvard Medical School; physician of obstetrics and gynocology,the Massachusetts General Hospital

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Marguerite Guzman Bouvard, is a resident scholar with the Women's Studies Program at Brandeis University. She is the author of books in the fields of political science, psychology, women's studies, and poetry, including Mothers of Adult Children (Lexington, 2013), The Invisible Wounds of War; Coming Home from Iraq and Afghanistan (Prometheus, 2012), and Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), and has edited two anthologies, all connected by a concern for human rights and the human condition.

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