Medical humanitarianism: ethnographies of practice
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...
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| Format: | Print Image |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2015]
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
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| Keywords: |
Global
> Medizinische Versorgung
> Humanitäre Auslandshilfe
> Personelle Auslandshilfe
> Katastrophenhilfe
> Gesundheitshilfe (Auslandshilfe)
Medical Care
> Humanitarian foreign aid
> Provision of personnel as foreign aid
> Disaster relief
> Health aid (foreign aid)
Afghanistan
> Pakistan
> Haiti
> Somali Region (Ethiopia)
> Darfur
> Northern (Uganda)
> Niger
> Liberia
> Aceh
> Ghana
> United Nations Children's Fund
> UN Kinderhilfswerk
> Bureau International des Médecins sans Frontières
> Nichtregierungsorganisation
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| Summary: | 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"? : Médecins Sans Frontières and the 2005 food crisis in Niger / Jean-Hervé Jézéquel -- 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | x, 274 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780812247329 |
