Kevin M. Cahill (ed.)

A Framework for Survival

Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters
Herausgeber: Cahill, Kevin M.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780415922357
• ISBN-10: 0415922356
• Artikelnr.: 20990201

Autorenporträt

Kevin M. Cahill is President and Director of the Center for international Health and Cooperation in New York City. He also serves as Director of the Tropical Disease Center at Lenox Hospital in New York, and is Professor and Chairman of the Department of International Health at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He is Senior Medical Consultant to the UN Health Service and to numerous foreign governments, as well as Pope John Paul II's American doctor.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Kevin M. Cahill
Part 1 Reality
Chapter 1 The Public-Health Consequences of Inaction, Michael J. Toole
Chapter 2 Clinical Aspects of Famine, Kevin M. Cahill
Chapter 3 When the System Doesn't Work, Jennifer Leaning
Chapter 4 Refugeewomen, Mary F. Diaz
Chapter 5 Mediating for Children, Nigel Fisher
Chapter 6 The American Medical Establishment, H. Jack Geiger
Chapter 7 The Contribution of International Humanitarian Law to the Restoration and Maintenance of Peace, Michel Veuthey
Chapter 8 Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance and the Sovereignty of States, Richard Falk
Chapter 9 The Economics of Neglect, Partha Dasgupta
Chapter 10 Reflections from the Donor, Lord David Owen
Chapter 11 Concerns of Recipient States, Abdulrahim Abby Farah
Part 2 Players
Chapter 12 The Challenges of Humanitarian Action, Jan Eliasson
Chapter 13 The Plight of Refugees, Sadako Ogata
Chapter 14 Relief and Reality, Philip Johnston
Chapter 15 The MÉdecins Sans FrontiÈres Experience, Joelle Tanguy
Chapter 16 The Changing Roles of Voluntary Organizations, Aengus Finucane
Chapter 17 Bangladesh, Fazle H. Abed
Part 3 Solutions and Future Options
Chapter 18 Training for Humanitarian Assistance, Cahill Kevin M.
Chapter 19 Underwriting Humanitarian Assistance, Shepard Forman
Chapter 20 Learning the Lessons of Coordination, Larry Minear
Chapter 21 Meeting the Challenges of the New Millenium, Cyrus Vance