Doctors Without Answers: Limits, Challenges, and Dilemmas of Humanitarian (Bio)medicine, and Doctors Without Borders

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Medicine is an appealing framework to apply to humanitarian crises. Surgeries and medications provide immediacy and scientific legitimacy, while the prospect of "saving lives" offers moral clarity. Through case studies focusing on particular biomedical interventions, HIV/AIDS in Uganda, the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I argue that in practice the seemingly unobjectionable biomedical model (exemplified by Doctors Without Borders) is often an inadequate solution to larger social, political, or infrastructural deficits.

    Item Description
    Name(s)
    Thesis advisor: Geltzer, Anna
    Date
    April 15, 2015
    Extent
    87 pages
    Language
    eng
    Genre
    Physical Form
    electronic
    Discipline
    Rights and Use
    In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
    Digital Collection
    PID
    ir:1323