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Abramowitz, Sharon; Catherine Panter-Brick (editors)

Abramowitz, Sharon; Catherine Panter-Brick (editors)

MEDICAL HUMANITARIANISM: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF PRACTICE

MEDICAL HUMANITARIANISM: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF PRACTICE

Philadelphia, PA

University of Pennsylvania Press

2015

FF: Medicine and Nursing > General

978-0-8122-4732-9

Series title: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights LCCN: 2015006400 Contents: Bringing Life into Relief: Comparative Ethnographies of Humanitarian Practice Part I. Intimate Interventions: Health Worker Experiences in Humanitarian Contexts Dignity Under Extreme Duress: The Moral and Emotional Landscape of Local Humanitarian Workers in the Afghan-Pakistan Border Areas Compassion and Care at the Limits of Privilege: Haitian Doctors amid the Influx of Foreign Humanitarian Volunteers 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 Evidence and Narratives: Recounting Ongoing Violence in Darfur, Sudan Life Beyond the Bubbles: Cognitive Dissonance and Humanitarian Impunity in Northern Uganda Staging a "Medical Coup"? Mdecins Sans Frontires and the 2005 Food Crisis in Niger Part III. Strong States, Weak States, and Contentsed Health Sovereignties What Happens When MSF Leaves? Humanitarian Departure and Medical Sovereignty in Postconflict Liberia Humanitarianism and "Mobile Sovereignty" in Strong State Settings: Reflections on Medical Humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia The British Military Medical Services and Contested Humanitarianism Part IV. The Afterlives of Intervention Anthropology and Medical Humanitarianism in the Age of Global Health Education The Creation of Emergency and Afterlife of Intervention: Reflections on Guinea Worm Eradication in Ghana Medical NGOs in Strong States: Working the Margins of the Israeli Medical Bureaucracy Conclusion. A Measured Good

Medical humanitarianismmedical 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. Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice features twelve essays that fold back the curtains on the individual experiences, institutional practices, and cultural forces that shape humanitarian practice. Contributors offer vivid and often dramatic insights into the experiences of local humanitarian workers in the Afghan-Pakistan border areas, national doctors coping with influxes of foreign humanitarian volunteers in Haiti, military doctors working for the British Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, and human rights-oriented volunteers within the Israeli medical bureaucracy. They analyze our contested understanding of lethal violence in Darfur, food crises responses in Niger, humanitarian knowledge in Ugandan IDP camps, and humanitarian departures in Liberia. They depict the local dynamics of healthcare delivery work to alleviate human suffering in Somali areas of Ethiopia, the emergency metaphors of global health campaigns from Ghana to war-torn Sudan, the fraught negotiations of humanitarians with strong state institutions in Indonesia, and the ambiguous character of research ethics espoused by missions in Sierra Leone. In providing well-grounded case studies, Medical Humanitarianism will engage both scholars and practitioners working at the interface of humanitarian medicine, global health interventions, and the social sciences. They challenge the reader to reach a more critical and compassionate understanding of humanitarian assistance.

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Emergency Response ; Medical ; Disaster Relief ;