The Bonds We Share with Dr. Glenn Losack

12/11/2021 30 min Temporada 1 Episodio 14
The Bonds We Share with Dr. Glenn Losack

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Author of the book, The Bonds We Share: Images of Humanity, 40 Years Around the Globe - Hardcover – Apollo Publishers (Fall 2021)In extraordinary, life-affirming photos taken around the world--from developing villages to urban centers--over the last 40 years, the photographer and psychiatrist, Dr. Glenn Losack, makes the bold case that what unites us is more powerful than the borders that divide us. Social activism through photography in a time of global turmoil.A portion of the proceeds for the book, The Bonds We Share, will benefit Doctors Without Borders.About the AuthorDr. Glenn Losack is a psychiatrist, physician, photographer, social activist, and musician who has traveled and worked extensively in the developing world for over forty years. Devoted to raising awareness of poverty and stymying the stigma of diseases like leprosy, Dr. Losack has worked with the Medical Benevolent Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, and Catholic Charities, and has given lectures on psychiatric care throughout India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Eastern Europe. His work has been featured in National Geographic, Asian Geographic, and Popular and American Photography, and has been selected for Kodak's “Picture of the Day” five times. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Losack practices “tele-psychiatry,” utilizing videoconferencing to treat rural populations in underserved communities with very few psychiatrists, and today, he treats four hundred patients throughout Middle America. Dr. Losack has also worked with patients in prisons in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York for over twenty-five years, including those in solitary confinement, those serving life sentences, and those on death row. Dr. Losack travels regularly but lives in Manhattan.The Bonds We Share includes 240 photos, many from India, Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, as well as from his hometown of New York City. Through his lens he has peered into the soul of many developing nations and found what foreigners visiting these places often overlook or plainly fail to recognize: There is a commonality that runs throughout humanity.To purchases the book, The Bonds We Share, click here: https://www.amazon.com/Bonds-We-Share-Images-Humanity/dp/1948062410/ref=nodl_To see more of Dr. Glenn Losack’s global photography, click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/glosackmd/For other episodes and to subscribe to Reputations In Crisis Channel on YouTube, click here: https://youtube.com/channel/UC9tA_hMdz7Yk-9FgCO6k-5w