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A Practical Reflection on Global Health Leveraging Health as a Means to Another End
Melissa McRae
21.10.2024Our understanding of health has been expanding for decades but was boosted by COVID-19. The list of variables influencing health feels infinite, and what constitutes an actual health intervention by ...
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Historical Antecedents to Understanding Contemporary Attacks on Healthcare
Duncan McLean
21.10.2024The protection of medical services in armed conflict is generally framed under the principle of medical neutrality. That respect for this principle has had a chequered past would be an...
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The Business of Conflict: Humanitarian Assistance and the War Economy in Syria
Duncan McLean
03.09.2021The Syrian crisis is one of the most serious humanitarian disasters in recent history. Yet the widely reported numbers–more than 6 million displaced, including 5 million refugees–reflect...
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Humanitarian ethics in Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders: Discussing dilemmas and mitigating moral distress
Philippe Calain
30.08.2018As a humanitarian medical organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) intervenes in places around the world affected by conflict and crisis. Although we are guided by humanitarian principles, our...
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Challenges of Instituting Effective ‘Medevac’ Policies
Duncan McLean
01.11.2017The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was an unprecedented medical and political emergency that cast an unflattering light on multiple corners of government and international response. Fear,...
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Treating, Containing, Mobilizing: The Role of Médecins Sans Frontières in the West African Ebola Epidemic Response
Marc Poncin
2016With 28,639 cases and 11,316 deaths, the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa stunned the world, revealing the global health community’s collective shortcomings in the face of a...
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The Shadow Theatre of Kidnappings: an account of Arjan Erkel's rescue
Duncan McLean
29.03.2016In Saving Lives and Staying Alive, the authors look at the drivers of the professionalisation of humanitarian security and its impact on humanitarian practices, with a specific focus on Syria, the...
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L’urgence d’une souveraineté alimentaire
Caroline Abu-Sada
2014From France, Rony Brauman, former president of MSF France, gives us his reading of the philosophical, political and symbolic stakes of Palestine and of this debate – one that particularly...
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Community Participation and Human Rights Advocacy: Questions Arising from the Campaign about the Right to Work of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Sergio Bianchi
2014Exploring the evolution of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), this book fills a lacuna in literature on the agency. UNRWA and Palestinian...
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Juego de espejos: Reflexiones sobre la percepción de MSF y la acción humanitaria
Caroline Abu-Sada
2014What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? MSF sought to answer these questions in the Perception Project, a study that...
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La mirada de los otros : Cómo las poblaciones en crisis perciben la ayuda humanitaria
Caroline Abu-Sada
2013Over the past 40 years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has developed a reputation as an emergency medical humanitarian organization willing to go almost anywhere to deliver...
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Jeux de miroir : Réflexions sur MSF et l’action humanitaire
Caroline Abu-Sada
2013What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? MSF sought to answer these questions in the Perception Project, a study that...