Abramowitz / Panter-Brick / Kawaki Medical Humanitarianism

Ethnographies of Practice
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8122-9169-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Medical Humanitarianism provides comparative ethnographies of the moral, practical, and policy implications of modern medical humanitarian practice. It offers twelve vivid case studies that challenge readers to reach a more critical and compassionate understanding of humanitarian assistance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abramowitz, Sharon

Panter-Brick, Catherine

Kawaki, Ichiro

Über Autor(innen)

Sharon Abramowitz is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Africa Studies at the University of Florida and author of Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Catherine Panter-Brick is Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs at Yale University, and Director of the MacMillan Program on Conflict, Resilience, and Health. She has coedited six books, most recently Pathways to Peace.