Preface: Signing Up for a Life Without Borders
Chapter 1. Ethiopia and Doctors Without Borders
Getting into Africa
Nutrition
A Gahla Welcome
Your Mission Should you Choose to Accept It
Lab Report
Chapter 2. Laying Foundations for a Functioning Laboratory
No Free Lunch
Sign Language and Key Words
Beasts of Burden
Goats
Luxury Items
Children with TB
Funding Better Solutions
Improving the Lab
Chapter 3. Team Life: Flies, Heat, and Bacteria without Borders
Aides, AIDS and Aid
Night Life
What the Locals Do
Expanding Our Scope
Life in Mission
Chapter 4. It's the Simple Tools that Work
Let There be Light
Only the Interest Payments Are Ongoing
Laboratory Experiments in the Kitchen
Alas for Ali
Chapter 5. Birds and Beasts
Chapter 6. Addis; Getting the Big Picture
Cash Only and the Price is Always Questioned
Aid for Whom?
Chapter 7. The Lab Burgeons
Friends, With and Without Feathers
The Afar had Their Own Heroes
Weapons Sales ' A Far Cry from Aid
Parasites and Playacting
Chapter 8. Further Into the Inferno: A Geological Laboratory
Blissfully Ignorant
Chapter 9. The Afar
Afar Origin and Practice
A Tribe Still in Battle
Chapter 10. A Question of Food
How to Feed the Multitudes
Chapter 11. Christmas
Broadening Our Scope
Small Victories
Moments to Remember
Chapter 12. Home, to a Changing World
Debriefing
Oblivious No More ?