Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Situations (eBook, ePUB)

An Anthropological Exploration
Redaktion: Véran, Jean-François; Stringer, Beverley; Burtscher, Doris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the interaction between anthropology and humanitarianism, focused on the organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The volume will be of interest to scholars from anthropology, development studies and global health, as well as to NGO staff and health professionals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000059878
• Artikelnr.: 59139292

Autorenporträt

Jean-François Véran is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Between 2013 and 2019, he served as Anthropology Advisor in the Brazilian Medical Unit (BRAMU) of MSF Brazil. Doris Burtscher has worked as a medical anthropologist with MSF since 2001. She is a medical anthropology referent in the MSF Vienna Evaluation Unit and lectures at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Beverley Stringer is a social anthropologist and trained nurse based in London. With extensive field experience, she set up and leads the Social Science team for the Dutch operational section of MSF. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Anthropology in humanitarian situations; 1. Changing
contexts in humanitarianism: a challenge for anthropology; 2. A medical
operational perspective on anthropology in the setting of MSF; 3. Ethical
considerations and anthropology: the MSF experience; 4. Emergency in
practice: doing an ethnography of malnutrition in South Sudan; 5. The
paradox of safe birth: The interaction between anthropology and medical
humanitarianism - the dilemma of an MSF medical strategy versus
health-seeking behaviour of Pashtun women in Khost province, Afghanistan;
6. Whose culture needs to be questioned? Access to HIV/AIDS treatment in
Homa Bay, Kenya; 7. Back to Life. Ebola survivors in Liberia: from
imaginary heroes to political agents; 8. Invisible Dengue: Epidemics and
Politics in Léogâne, Haiti; 9. Revealing causes beyond culture: An MSF
surgical project through the lens of anthropology and health promotion; 10.
'Yaya hankuri da mutani?' (How is your patience with the people?) A medical
anthropological inquiry into treatment challenges in the Anka Local
Government Area, Zamfara Heavy Metal Treatment Project, Nigeria; 11.
Dealing with the body social: an ethnography of dialogue in a health
clinic, south Tehran, Iran; 12. The New Missionaries. An Anthropological
Reflection on Humanitarian Action in Critical Situations