Near and Far
Near and Far
Michael Budde
Visiting the Sick: From Liberation Theology to Health Care—Lessons Learned in Rural Ecuador
34 minutes Posted Jul 11, 2018 at 5:33 pm.
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A CWCIT interview with David Gaus, MD, an American physician and public health expert who is the founder/CEO of Andean Health & Development (AHD), a nonprofit that provides high-quality, sustainable health care in rural Ecuador and operates a residency program for local family physicians.
For CWCIT's 2017-18 Corporal Works of Mercy lecture series, Dr. Gaus gave a talk at DePaul University on the topic of this podcast's title, the connection between missionary medicine's evolution and liberation theology. This interview addresses that topic as well as related aspects of Dr. Gaus' 20 years of work in rural Ecuador. Learn more about Andean Health & Development here: https://www.andeanhealth.org