Books by Dr. McKelvey
This text is a collection of oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians. Abandoned during the war by their American fathers, discriminated against by the victorious Communists, and ignored for many years by the American government, they endured life in impoverished Vietnam.
A Gift of Barbed Wire is a searing look at the lives of South Vietnamese officials and their families left behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975. A former Marine who served in Vietnam, Robert McKelvey interviews former political prisoners, their wives, and their children to reveal the devastating, long-term impact of their incarceration.
How is it possible for practitioners of the healing arts to cope with the deaths of children and the devastating grief of their families? Physician Robert, McKelvey looks squarely at this painful question and gets to the heart of it in "When a Child Dies".
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”