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Communicating during Humanitarian Medical Crises: The Consequences of Silence or "Témoignage"

Communicating during Humanitarian Medical Crises: The Consequences of Silence or "Témoignage"

Hasian, Marouf

Hardcover

Public HealthGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 1498593186
ISBN13: 9781498593182
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Mar 18 2019
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Promise and Perils of Silence or Temoignage During Humanitarian Crises provides readers with a nuanced study of what happens when historical and 21st century medical humanitarian communities, armed with their idealistic rhetorics, choose whether to speak out or remain silent during various military or medical crises. The author uses a series of case studies from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century to illustrate the politicized nature of these decisions. Unlike some that focus on the prescriptive need to follow certain universal medical humanitarian principles during crises, this book highlights the precarious nature of what some scholars call medical advocacy/witnessing or what the French call témoignage.

The author argues that regardless of whether we are talking about lack of action during colonial crises or the Holocaust, it is oftentimes the lack of political will that determines how like neutrality or impartiality are interpreted. The book also acquaints readers with some of the challenges that have been recently posed to the new humanitarian Doctors Without Borders personnel, who have witnessed the targeting of medical hospitals and clinics. What researchers call the weaponization of medical care affects many in need living in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, or Syria.

The author concludes the book by underscoring the point that it is the

presence or absence of political will, and not the inherent epistemic value of medical humanitarian principles, that dictates when this advocacy succeeds or fails.

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