Medical Humanitarianism : Ethnographies of Practice /

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Medical humanitarianism--medical and other health-related initiatives undertaken in conditions born of conflict, neglect, or disaster--has a prominent and growing presence in international development, global health, and human security interventions. [This book] features twelve essays that fold back...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Panter-Brick, Catherine, 1959- (Autor, Editor ), Abramowitz, Sharon Alane (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Medical assistance.
Medical anthropology.
Humanitarian assistance.
Disaster medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
Anthropologie medicale.
Medecine de catastrophes > Études de cas.
Aide humanitaire > Études de cas.
Aide sanitaire > Études de cas.
Disaster Medicine
Anthropology, Medical
Medical Assistance
Disaster medicine > Case studies.
Medical anthropology > Case studies.
Humanitarian assistance > Case studies.
Medical assistance > Case studies.
Case studies.
Case Reports
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dignity under extreme duress : the moral and emotional landscape of local humanitarian workers in the Afghan-Pakistan border areas / Patricia Omidian and Catherine Panter-Brick
  • Compassion and care at the limits of privilege : Haitian doctors amid the influx of foreign humanitarian volunteers / Laura Wagner
  • Trust and caregiving during a UNICEF-funded relief operation in the Somali region of Ethiopia / Lauren Carruth
  • Evidence and narratives : recounting ongoing violence in Darfur, Sudan / Alex de Waal
  • Life beyond the bubbles : cognitive dissonance and humanitarian impunity in Northern Uganda / Tim Allen
  • Staging a "medical coup"? : Medecins Sans Frontieres and the 2005 food crisis in Niger / Jean-Herve Jezequel
  • What happens when MSF leaves? : humanitarian departure and medical sovereignty in postconflict Liberia / Sharon Abramowitz
  • Humanitarianism and "mobile sovereignty" in strong state settings : reflections on medical humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia / Byron J. Good, Jesse Hession Grayman, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
  • The British military medical services and contested humanitarianism / Stuart Gordon
  • Anthropology and medical humanitarianism in the age of global health education / Peter Locke
  • The creation of emergency and afterlife of intervention : reflections on guinea worm eradication in Ghana / Amy Moran-Thomas
  • Medical NGOs in strong states : working the margins of the Israeli medical bureaucracy / Ilil Benjamin.

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