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Paradoxes of Care - Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt (Paperback)
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Paradoxes of Care - Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt (Paperback)
Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
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Each year, billions of dollars are spent on global humanitarian
health initiatives. These efforts are intended to care for
suffering bodies, especially those of distressed children living in
poverty. But as global medical aid can often overlook the local
economic and political systems that cause bodily suffering, it can
also unintentionally prolong the very conditions that hurt children
and undermine local aid givers. Investigating medical humanitarian
encounters in Egypt, Paradoxes of Care illustrates how child aid
recipients and local aid experts grapple with global aid's
shortcomings and its paradoxical outcomes. Rania Kassab Sweis
examines how some of the world's largest aid organizations care for
vulnerable children in Egypt, focusing on medical efforts with
street children and out-of-school village girls. Her in-depth
ethnographic study reveals how global medical aid fails to "save"
these children according to its stated aims, and often maintains-or
produces new-social disparities in children's lives. Foregrounding
vulnerable children's responses to medical aid, Sweis moves past
the unquestioned benevolence of global health to demonstrate how
children must manage their own bodies and lives in the absence of
adult care. With this book, she challenges readers to engage with
the question of what medical caregivers and donors alike gain from
such global humanitarian transactions.
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