Moral Courage: 19 Profiles of Investigative Journalists

Moral courage is much in the spotlight today given an upsurge in authoritarian regimes world-wide. Award-winning psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein offers his expert perspective on why investigative journalists stand up to intolerant regimes, often singlehandedly. Nineteen international journalists explain their rationales for the work they do in face-to-face interviews with the author. Moral Courage builds on Professor Feinstein’s strong and lauded track record in the field of conflict journalism research. This book this is an essential read for anyone drawn to topics encompassing biography, conflict, politics and journalism.

Dr. Anthony Feinstein received his medical degree in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand. Thereafter he completed his training in Psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital in London, England, before training as a neuropsychiatrist at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square in London. His Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. Degree were obtained through the University of London, England. He is currently a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and directs a neuropsychiatry service at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. He is a former Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee of the MS Society of Canada.

After having studied and written a book about the effect of war on conflict photographers (Shooting War/2018)Dr. Feinstein has continued to be involved in a series of studies of relevance to current issues within our society.

In 2000-2001 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study mental health issues in post-apartheid Namibia. This led to the development of that country’s first rating scale for mental illness. Subsequent work in Botswana produced that country’s first rating scale for mental illness as well.

Dr. Feinstein is the author of Dangerous Lives: War and the Men and Women Who Report It (Thomas Allen, Toronto 2003), In Conflict (New Namibia Books, 1998), The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Multiple Sclerosis (Cambridge University Press 1999, with a second edition in 2007), Michael Rabin, America’s Virtuoso Violinist (Amadeus Press, 2005, with a second edition in 2011) and Journalists Under Fire: the Psychological Hazards of Covering War (John Hopkins University Press) and Battle Scarred (Tafelberg Press, 2011). His most recent book, Shooting War (Glitterati Editions) is due for release in November 2018.

In 2012, a documentary, ＂Under Fire＂ produced by Dr. Feinstein and based on his research of journalists in war zones was shortlisted for an Academy Award. The documentary received a 2012 Peabody Award. His 12-part series for the Globe and Mail in Canada on war photography, an extended version of which was published in book form (Shooting War) was short listed for a 2016 EPPY award. He lives in Toronto, Canada.