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The content below will give the reviewer an idea of the scope of this man's life, work, and what is covered in

A PUBLIC HEALTH ODYSSEY.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD, by Dr. Reimert T. Ravenholt

PART ONE: BEGINNING

CHAPTER 1: THE JOURNEY BEGINS

PART TWO: MISSION ........

CHAPTER 2: THE LONG ROUTE TO INDIA : Europe , Egypt and the Middle East

CHAPTER 3: GHANDI’S INDIA: Nai Talami Sangh, The Hill Stations,Children’s Clinic of India, Teachers as practitioners, The Journey Home

CHAPTER 4: THE WASHINGTON EXPERIENCE: Yamhill County Health Department Projects , Salk Vaccines , Oregon Health and Science University

PART THREE: POPULATION GROWTH AND THE HEALTH OF THE WORLD

CHAPTER 5: THE PATHFINDER FUND

CHAPTER 6: THE INTERNATIONAL IUD PROGRAMME: Pathfinder Family Planning Support

CHAPTER 7: INTERNATIONAL FERTILITY RESEARCH PROGRAM: Priorities, Initiation and Novation , USAID Office of Population

CHAPTER 8: NATIONAL FERTILITY RESEARCH PROGRAMS : The Bangladesh Fertility Research Programme. The International Pregnancy Advisory Service, The Bangladesh Association for Prevention of Septic Abortion

CHAPTER NINE: THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR FAMILY HEALTH : Training of Rural Indigenous Practitioners, Quinacrine Sterilization, WHO Meeting , Indian Rural Medical Association , Dr. Jack Lippes’ QS Trial , The Editorial Division

..... PART FOUR: UNFINISHED BUSINESS AND CONTROVERSIES

Dr. J.K. Jain and the Video on Wheels, False Starts: The “Couple Pill” , Competition Between NGOs, Training of Traditional Birth Attendants , The Gulf War , My Separation From IFRP/ FHI, The Dalkon Shield Controversy , Dr. Stephen Mumford, Indian Rural Health Initiative

PART FIVE: SOME THOUGHTS AT THE END OF AN ODYSSEY

Globalization , Globalization’s Future Prospects , Health Impact Assessment

REFERENCES , APPENDICES , INDEX

158 pages, with photographs

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hTHE AUTHOR IN MEMORIAM:

We are most sad to announce the death in 2009 of Elton Kessel's wife Jean, whose contributions to his life helped make possible his lifelong focus on his humanitarian mission.FOREWORD, by Dr. Reimert T. Ravenholt __________________________________ ixOWLEDGMENTS

AABOUT THE AUTHOR

In 1954, Dr. Elton Kessel became Director of the Rural Health Department of Hindustani Talimi Sangh in Maharastra State, India. At that time and in that area the mortality of those under 5 was 50 percent; 90 percent of all children were malnourished.

When Kessel left for the subcontinent accompanied by his humanitarian-activist wife and infant son, he was prepared to adapt to the existing environment if it would not endanger their health, but was dedicated to instituting change to benefit the entire community. He entered into a lifelong commitment with Dr. Biral Mullick‘s Humanity Association to provide for families of the rural areas, and the results of his efforts spread like ripples in a pond; they attracted the attention of local then central government officers, and ultimately affected the nation.

The years in India, followed by his work as Medical Director of the MakahTribal Clinic in Washington State, initiated a lifetime of commitment to the family and health care needs of the unserved and underserved worldwide. It was perhaps kismet that also brought Kessel to the attention of others, including Dr. Clarence Gamble, engaged in the struggle to save children and their mothers.

They were convinced that repeated pregnancies, unsupported by adequate nutrition and health care, were a major factor contributing towards the poverty, ignorance, and disease which kept the death wheel turning in developing nations.

As noted in the biography posted on www.quinacrine.com, well past the age when most would have retired after a productive career, Kessel continues to serve during the last two decades as science officer and editor for the International Association of Maternal and Neonatal Health; as consultant to the creation of an Indian Rural Medical Association; as Clinical Professor, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University; as Adjunct Professor, Health Education, Department of Health Education, School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; as Public Health Consultant to a number of organizations; and as Secretary General of the International Federation for Family Health. The scores of Kessel’s articles appearing in peer-reviewed publications and textbooks reveal the breadth of his commitment to identify unmet needs of those at risk and develop strategies for solving their most pressing problems.

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EXCERPT from FOREWORD by Dr. Reimert T. Ravenholt:

While the emergence and advancement of reproductive freedom during the last century has greatly depended upon the leadership of luminaries such as Margaret Sanger, Dr. Clarence Gamble, Dr. Alan Guttmacher, Senator Ernest Greuning, John D. Rockefeller III, and General William Draper, it has also depended in large measure on dedicated workers actually implementing fertility control services in the less developed countries. Among these, none worked with greater energy, grass-roots expertise, and tenacity than Dr. Elton Kessel, who had gained extensive experience in the implementation of clinical and public health services at the local level in India and several places in the United States before entering the global population/family planning field.

I wish to congratulate and thank Dr. Elton Kessel most heartily for his extraordinary lifetime service to our mutual goal of doing all that we could do toward the advent of universal reproductive freedom.

–– Helen Compton, ARTSHIPpublishing

ISBN # 0-9765975-2-7

Edited by Helen Compton and Irene Rosenfeld; Designed by Helen Compton; published and distributed by ARTSHIPpublishing

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