An intimate portrait of the renowned international humanitarian organization.

Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence, Sociology and Social Work of the Association of American Publishers

Pioneering medical sociologist Renée C. Fox spent nearly twenty years conducting extensive ethnographic research within Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), a private international medical humanitarian organization that was created in 1971 and awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1999. Drawing on unprecedented access to MSF staff meetings, doctors, and field workers, Fox weaves a rich tapestry of the MSF experience with emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. Including vivid photographs of MSF operations, Doctors Without Borders explores the organization's founding principles, distinctive culture, and inner struggles to realize more fully its "without borders" transnational vision.