Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Situations: An Anthropological Exploration

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Acknowledgements
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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 Epilogue: the new missionaries – an anthropological reflection on humanitarian action in critical situations
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