Medical humanitarianism-medical 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.
Contributors: Sharon Abramowitz, Tim Allen, Ilil Benjamin, Lauren
Carruth, Mary Jo DelVecchio-Good, Alex de Waal, Byron J. Good,
Stuart Gordon, Jesse Hession Grayman, Jean-Herve Jezequel, Peter
Locke, Amy Moran-Thomas, Patricia Omidian, Catherine Panter-Brick,
Peter Piot, Peter Redfield, Laura Wagner.
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