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Medical humanitarianism : ethnographies of practice /

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Panter-Brick, Catherine; Abramowitz, Sharon Alane.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2015]
©2015
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Disaster medicine > Case studies.
Humanitarian assistance > Case studies.
Medical anthropology > Case studies.
Medical assistance > Case studies.
Culture.
Disaster medicine.
Humanitarian assistance.
Medical anthropology.
Medical assistance.
Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen.
various.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Health Issues. > Health Issues.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812291698
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Carrier Form: 1 online resource
ISBN: 9780812291698
Index Number: RA390
CLC: R-05
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Foreword /
Bringing Life into Relief: Comparative Ethnographies of Humanitarian Practice /
Chapter 1. Dignity Under Extreme Duress: The Moral and Emotional Landscape of Local Humanitarian Workers in the Afghan-Pakistan Border Areas /
Chapter 2. Compassion and Care at the Limits of Privilege: Haitian Doctors amid the Influx of Foreign Humanitarian Volunteers /
Chapter 3. Trust and Caregiving During a UNICEF-Funded Relief Operation in the Somali Region of Ethiopia /
Chapter 4. Evidence and Narratives: Recounting Lethal Violence in Darfur, Sudan /
Chapter 5. Life Beyond the Bubbles: Cognitive Dissonance and Humanitarian Impunity in Northern Uganda /
Chapter 6. Staging a Medical Coup ? M decins Sans Fronti res and the 2005 Food Crisis in Niger /
Chapter 7. What Happens When MSF Leaves? Humanitarian Departure and Medical Sovereignty in Postconflict Liberia /
Chapter 8. Humanitarianism and Mobile Sovereignty in Strong State Settings: Reflections on Medical Humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia /
Chapter 9. The British Military Medical Services and Contested Humanitarianism /
Chapter 10. Anthropology and Medical Humanitarianism in the Age of Global Health Education /
Chapter 11. The Creation of Emergency and Afterlife of Intervention: Reflections on Guinea Worm Eradication in Ghana /
Chapter 12. Medical NGOs in Strong States: Working the Margins of the Israeli Medical Bureaucracy /
Conclusion. A Measured Good /
List of Contributors --
Index.

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