{"id":20747,"date":"2020-10-22T11:53:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=20747"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:50:15","slug":"melissa-armstrong-publishes-new-book-an-ambulance-on-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2020\/melissa-armstrong-publishes-new-book-an-ambulance-on-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Armstrong Publishes New Book: An Ambulance on Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Melissa Armstrong Publishes New Book: An Ambulance on Safari\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Melissa-Armstrong-240x333.png\" alt=\"Melissa Armstrong standing outside a house while holding her new book\" class=\"wp-image-20748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Melissa-Armstrong-240x333.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Melissa-Armstrong-400x554.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Melissa-Armstrong-160x222.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Melissa-Armstrong-360x499.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Melissa-Armstrong.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hot off the press! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mqup.ca\/ambulance-on-safari--an-products-9780228003298.php\">An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile<\/a>, the first medical and political history of emergency health care services for MK cadres, South Africans in exile, and local patients in numerous ANC bases in Southern Africa from the 1960s to 1990. This important book is by Melissa Armstrong, a Carleton PhD graduate and soon-to-be medical doctor in Saskatchewan, Canada. Congratulations, Melissa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot off the press! An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile, the first medical and political history of emergency health care services for MK cadres, South Africans in exile, and local patients in numerous ANC bases in Southern Africa from the 1960s to 1990. This important book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news","category-publications"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"student-female2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20749,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20747\/revisions\/20749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}