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	Norman Bethune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bethune was an early proponent of universal health care, the success of which he observed during a visit to the Soviet Union.
		Bethune's work in Spain in developing mobile medical units was the model for the later development of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) units.
		Bethune died on November 12, 1939, of blood poisoning from a cut he received while performing surgery, while with the Communist Party of China's Eighth Route Army in the midst of the second Sino-Japanese War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Bethune (725 words)

	Norman Bethune
		Henry Norman Bethune (March 30, 1890 - November 12, 1939) was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada.
		Virtually unknown in his homeland during his lifetime, Doctor Bethune was finally received international recognition as Chairman Mao Zedong of the People's Republic of China published his book, titled In Memory of Norman Bethune (original Chinese title : 紀念白求恩), which documented the final months of the doctor's life in China.
		The CPC's propaganda machine made a persistent assertion that Bethune was a passionate member of the Communist Party of Canada with a devotion to the Chinese Socialist Movement (in China, only a comrade could qualify as a good man).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/no/Norman_Bethune.html (293 words)

	NORMAN BETHUNE COLLEGE
		Bethune was an innovator and was known to invent new surgical tools to improve his profession (of his designs, only the Bethune Rib Shears are still in use today), but he was also something of a quack too: it was known that he had an unusually high rate of post-operative fatalities.
		Bethune was a radical man of action who believed that when you perceive something as being wrong, the only moral choice is to go and put it right.
		Bethune's drink of choice that night was the stuff that most other doctors at the time were using as a hand-rinse after surgery.
	www.yorku.ca /bethune/history.html (1081 words)

	Norman Bethune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Norman Bethune was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario in 1890.
		Norman Bethune is best known in China for his work as a field surgeon with the Eight Route Army from 1937-1939.
		Bethune died on November 12, 1939 of blood poisoning contracted during an operation on a Chinese soldier.
	www.beijing.gc.ca /beijing/en/navmain/ambassador/norman (143 words)

	Bethune, Henry Norman
		Bethune, Henry Norman, surgeon, inventor, political activist (b at Gravenhurst, Ont 3 Mar 1890; d at Huang Shiko, N China 12 Nov 1939).
		Bethune's fame in Canada has resulted from his status as a hero in the People's Republic of China and the impact of this on Sino-Canadian relations.
		Bethune left Canada for the last time in 1938 to join the 8th Route Army in the Shanxi-Hobei border region.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0000715 (394 words)

	Bethune, Henry Norman
		Bethune studied medicine at Toronto and served as a stretcher bearer in World War I. He was wounded in the leg and sent home.
		After the war, Bethune practised as a doctor in Detroit, where in 1926 he fell ill with tuberculosis, which was generally fatal in those days.
		In Montreal, Bethune became a well-known surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0000715 (262 words)

	Red Gold . Innovators & Pioneers . Henry Norman Bethune \| PBS
		Henry Norman Bethune was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario, on March 3, 1890.
		Bethune's early commitment to maintain the family tradition of service to the less fortunate remained throughout his life.
		Bethune left medical school at the University of Toronto in 1914 to enlist in the Canadian Army.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/redgold/innovators/bio_bethune.html (963 words)

	Canadian doctor
		Bethune is no stranger to millions throughout the world who fight for the same ideal for which the doctor sacrificed his life.
		Bethune knew that for a man of his social position and whose forefathers for generation have been preachers he could be stigmatized.
		Norman Bethune's spirit was at last back home - with many of his welfare ideals now in place in a modern, caring and compassionate Canada.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /canada/190/bethune.htm (874 words)

	CM Magazine: Norman Bethune.
		Norman Bethune is the biography of the Canadian doctor who practiced medicine in Spain during the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and also in China during that country's war with Japan in 1938-39.
		While Norman Bethune is recommended for readers aged 10-11, it will be more easily understood by those a year or two older.
		Norman Bethune is illustrated throughout with fl and white photographs.
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol11/no7/normanbethune.html (675 words)

	CM Magazine: Norman Bethune: A Life of Passionate Conviction. (The Quest Library, 1).
		"Norman Bethune liked to have his photograph taken." is how Wilson opens Chapter 2, the beginning of his chronology of the life of Bethune.
		Bethune was greatly affected by the wounded while he was a stretcher-bearer in the trenches of Ypres during World War I. Injured in France, he returned to Canada, attended university and received a degree in medicine.
		Norman Bethune: A Life of Passionate Conviction is an intimate look at a charismatic individual who made a difference in the lives of many.
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol6/no18/bethune.html (531 words)

	Norman Bethune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Known widely as an innovative thoracic surgeon, a vigorous advocate of democratic medical services, and an international humanitarian, Norman Bethune is revered in China as a hero in the successful struggle for the establishment of its first united republic in 5,000 years.
		Bethune’s unique contributions in China were the culmination of his family’s long tradition of dedication to altruistic human service and his personal experiences as a medical doctor in the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, and among the sick and destitute in both Canada and the United States.
		Norman Bethune’s unceasing and inventive work as a surgeon, teacher, founder, and administrator of hospitals for Chinese people, whose cause he had made his own, established a lasting bond between his adopted people and this heroic, outstanding Canadian.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/58-63.htm (1895 words)

	Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. Kenny Prize.
		Another reason why Bethune is important today and will be in the new millennium relates to a disease that was a major factor in Bethune' life and in his radicalization.
		Bethune didn' originate the expression but he frequently repeated the statement that "There is a rich man' tuberculosis and a poor man' tuberculosis.
		That' why Bethune and his statement about the rich and the poor and their different tuberculosis will be worth remembering in the new millennium.
	www.library.utoronto.ca /fisher/kenny-prize/larry-hannant.html (2035 words)

	Macleans.ca \| Top Stories \| Canada \| Sex, spies and Bethune's secret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bethune was enraged to see his patients leave the hospital healthy, only to fall ill again because of the grinding poverty in which they lived.
		Bethune told his old friend that a couple of lazy opportunists or even Franco sympathizers were working with him -- and that he had resorted to Scotch whisky as a means of dealing with them.
		Bethune's blood transfusion unit contained a Communist cell, and the doctor himself was a member of the party.
	www.macleans.ca /topstories/canada/article.jsp?content=20051024_114045_114045 (3000 words)

	Bethune, Dr. Norman - Great Men and Women of the World
		While at Trudeau, Bethune read about a new and controversial treatment for tuberculosis called compression therapy, or artificial pnemothorax (insertion of air into the chest so as to collapse one lung either permanently or temporarily depending on the case).
		Bethune was one of the top paid doctors in Canada, 39, and one of the world's top thoracic surgeons.
		Bethune and his colleagues discovered difficulties with some patients, however, in that the blood they transfused didn't work, and the patient died.
	homepage.oanet.com /jaywhy/bethune.htm (613 words)

	Hannant.
		Another reason why Bethune is important today and will be in the new millennium relates to a disease that was a major factor in Bethune’s life and in his radicalization.
		Bethune didn’t originate the expression but he frequently repeated the statement that “There is a rich man’s tuberculosis and a poor man’s tuberculosis.
		That’s why Bethune and his statement about the rich and the poor and their different tuberculosis will be worth remembering in the new millennium.
	www.library.utoronto.ca /fisherold/kenny/hannant.htm (1998 words)

	Military Medicine: New York-tidewater chapters' history of military medicine award: The military odyssey of Norman ...
		Bethune first served as a stretcher-bearer in an ambulance unit and later as a medical officer with the Allies during the First World War.
		It was that of a Canadian surgeon, Norman Bethune, locally known as Pai-Chu-En, translated as "white-- seek-grace." He is the only westerner hailed as a national hero in China.
		Bethune participated in military actions on two continents, first in France, then in Spain, and finally in China, where he died in 1939.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_199904/ai_n8846092 (535 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		As staunch Anglicans, Bethune and his colleagues Edward Mulberry Hodder, James Bovell, Henry Melville, William Hallowell, and Francis Badgley* offered to make their school the medical faculty of the new college, Trinity; classes began in the fall of 1850.
		Bethune taught anatomy and physiology, and would serve as dean in 1855—56.
		His grandson Henry Norman Bethune*, also a physician, would achieve renown for his work in pneumothoracic surgery and for his service in China with the army of Mao Tse-tung in 1937—39.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40096 (718 words)

	From Jack Downey ~ Canada and China have Someone in Common (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Norman Bethune was born in small town Ontario and went on to become a world renowned Medical Doctor who made field expedient surgical instruments from flint.
		Bethune believed that a woman was a man's equal and had a right to control her own body.
		Comrade Bethune's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his great sense of responsibility in his work and his great warm-heartiness towards all comrades and the people.
	www.canadianculture.com /geezer/jack54.html (1347 words)

	History of Education: Selected Moments
		It is September 1911, and 21 year-old Norman Bethune, now two years into university medical training, arrives at the Toronto office of the Reading Camp Association, later to be named Frontier College.
		Norman Bethune, the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario in 1890.
		Bethune has been described as "an angry man, a man roused to anger by stupidity, by bureaucracy, tyranny, brutality, by the contradictions and absurdities of the society around him" (Shephard and Levesque 1982: 82).
	fcis.oise.utoronto.ca /~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/1911bethune.html (1415 words)

	Unveiling and Dedication of the Statue of Dr. Norman Bethune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He didn't do it so that one day we'd all be gathered around here to say "Oh, a statue of Dr. Norman Bethune." Everything he did, if you look at the evidence of his life, was done because he felt it was the right thing to do, because he believed it.
		To Norman Bethune, helping people was much more than an ideal, it was reality.
		Norman Bethune reminds us that wherever there is a need, there will be extraordinary people who will come out to meet that need.
	www.gg.ca /media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=1171 (968 words)

	Norman Bethune - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Henry Norman Bethune, MD (March 3, 1890 – November 12, 1939) was a Canadian physician, medical innovator, and humanitarian.
		Virtually unknown in his homeland during his lifetime, Doctor Bethune finally received international recognition as Chairman Mao Zedong of the People's Republic of China published his essay entitled In Memory of Norman Bethune (original Chinese title : 紀念白求恩), which documented the final months of the doctor's life in China.
		Bethune College at York University, and Dr. Norman Bethune Collegiate Institute (a secondary school) in Scarborough, Ontario, were named after Dr. Bethune.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Norman_Bethune (745 words)

	Norman BETHUNE c1795-1880 & Catherine McDONALD c1807-? & family, Digby, Hotspur & Carapook Victoria, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Norman was a farmer / crofter of 4 acres at Borniskitaig, Isle of Skye, Scotland, a tenant Lord Godfrey William Wentworth MacDonald, 4th Baron of the Isle of Skye.
		1832 Isle of Skye, Inverness, Scotland, son of Norman BETHUNE and Catharine McDONALD was married in 1856 at Melbourne, Victoria to Christina BETHUNE b.
		1837 Inverness, Scotland, son of Norman BETHUNE and Catharine McDONALD was married in 1858 at Naracoorte, SA to Flora McKAY b.
	www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au /digby/family/bethune.htm (244 words)

	BW_Bethune_eng.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Though the story of Bethune's life is truly out of the ordinary (see short biogrpahy), what struck me most was the enormous philosophical and personal transformation that he underwent in the last 5 years of his life.
		Norman Bethune is unquestionably one of Canada's true heroic figures, a brilliant surgeon and ambitious professional who was transformed by his belief in the fight against poverty and fascism into one of the great humanitarians of our century.
		Bethune was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario in 1890 and received his education there and in Toronto, He worked as both an ambulance driver and as adoctor in the First World War, followed by advanced medical studies in London, England.
	www.colba.net /~tbrady/BW_Bethune_eng.html (1113 words)

	Amazon.ca: The politics of passion: Norman Bethune's writing and art: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		That observation burnishes lightly the facet of Bethune's character that was to shine with the greatest power during the next and last four years of his life.
		Bethune's boisterous entry onto the world stage was prompted by a humanitarian streak, a social side to his surgical vocation.
		Bethune's solitude was at times acute in China, though it usually did not overpower his prevalent sense of communion and accomplishment.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0802009077 (2978 words)

	Norman Bethune Biography
		Henry Norman Bethune (March 30, 1890 - November 12, 1939) was a Canadian physician, medical innovator, and humanitarian.
		He met his death while saving the lives of others; he died on November 12, 1939 of blood poisoning from a cut wound he received during a surgery, whilst with the Communist Party of China's legendary Eighth Route Army in midst of the second Sino-Japanese War.
		Bethune College at York University, and Dr. Norman Bethune C.I. in Scarborough, Ontario were named after Dr. Bethune.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Bethune_Norman.html (378 words)

	Róbinson Rojas.- In Memory of Norman Bethune, by MAO TSE-TUNG (Mao Zedong), December, 1939 .- RRojas Databank: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Comrade Bethune's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his great sense of responsibility in his work and his great warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the people.
		Comrade Bethune was a doctor, the art of healing was his profession and he was constantly perfecting his skill, which stood very high in the Eighth Route Army's medical service.
		The distinguished surgeon Norman Bethune was a member of the Canadian Communist Party.
	www.rrojasdatabank.org /mao16.htm (801 words)

	Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Presenting the life of Dr. Norman Bethune and his complex character, he was both selfless and arrogant, an international humanitarian, an alchoholic and a communist who acted on his beliefs (when so many of us simply talk about them).
		Bethune was a champion of socialized medicine and a rabid anti-facist who though subject to entirely human failings also presented the best in human achievement.
		Bethune's life is fascinating and truly heroic and this film demonstrates that fact very well.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0099127 (381 words)

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