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.
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Name(s)
Author: McCallion, Paul Andrew
Thesis advisor: Geltzer, Anna
Date
April 15, 2015
Extent
87 pages
Language
eng
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Physical Form
electronic
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In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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PID
ir:1323