Medical humanitarianism : ethnographies of practice /

Medical humanitarianism : ethnographies of practice /

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Imprint:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Description:x, 274 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Subject:
Medical assistance -- Case studies.
Humanitarian assistance -- Case studies.
Medical anthropology -- Case studies.
Disaster medicine -- Case studies.
Disaster medicine.
Humanitarian assistance.
Medical anthropology.
Medical assistance.
Case studies.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10380321
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Other authors / contributors:Abramowitz, Sharon Alane, editor.
Panter-Brick, Catherine, 1959- editor.
Piot, Peter, 1949- author of foreword.
ISBN:9780812247329
0812247329
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Bringing Life into Relief: Comparative Ethnographies of Humanitarian Practice
  • Part I. Intimate Interventions: Health Worker Experiences in Humanitarian Contexts
  • 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
  • Part II. The Architecture of Humanitarian Knowledge, Ethics, and Imperatives
  • 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"? Médecins Sans Frontières and the 2005 Food Crisis in Niger
  • Part III. Strong States, Weak States, and Contested Health Sovereignties
  • 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
  • Part IV. The Afterlives of Intervention
  • 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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