Bio © UNHCR Brian Sokol                   Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family […]

Boys in White  Paperback Jan. 1976 Review “Boys in White was the first major sociological study reporting the actual educational experience had at medical school, not as it should be or as the American Association of Medical Schools portrayed education at medical schools. Participant observation by Howard S. Becker and Blanche Geer provided insights that […]

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