The founders of the Red Cross/ Red Crescent Movement proceeded from their involvement in specific experience to develop a series of ""Fundamental Principles"". In ""Health and Humanitarian Concerns: Principles and Ethics"", Dr. Henryk Leszek Zielinski proceeds from experience to ""Fundamental Principles"" and back again, providing health professionals with clear guidance for confronting specific problems - including natural disasters, forced feeding, torture, biomedical research and HIV and AIDS discrimination - while simultaneously presenting these medical and social dilemmas in the context of the broader humanitarian principles which underlie the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.