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By David Heiden. 209 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1992. $29.95. ISBN 0-87722-912-0.

Dust to Dust is a remarkable Triple Crown achievement in medicine, photography, and writing. Dr. David Heiden, a San Francisco physician, has taken the weak pulse of African famine victims and amplified it through a stethoscope of light and tears. The result is a must read not only for the general public but particularly for the medical community. Dust to Dust is a house call no one should miss.

The black-and-white photographs shot by Heiden in Ethiopia and Sudan in 1985 and 1987 are stark yet sensitive. From a grainy shot of one of his colleagues quietly reflecting at a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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