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Title:

Medical humanitarianism : ethnographies of practice / edited by Sharon Abramowitz and Catherine Panter-Brick.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 274 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Medical assistance--Case studies.
Humanitarian assistance--Case studies.
Medical anthropology--Case studies.
Disaster medicine--Case studies.

Other Authors:

Abramowitz, Sharon Alane, author. author.
Panter-Brick, Catherine, 1959- author. author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Bringing life into relief : comparative ethnographies of humanitarian practice / Sharon Abramowitz and Catherine Panter-Brick -- 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"? : M©♭decins Sans Fronti©·res and the 2005 food crisis in Niger / Jean-Herv©♭ J©♭z©♭quel -- 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.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

ISBN:

0812247329 (alk. paper)
9780812247329 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)903873768

LCCN:

2015006400

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)