Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Bringing Life into Relief: Comparative Ethnographies of Humanitarian Practice 1
5. PART I. INTIMATE INTERVENTIONS: HEALTH WORKER EXPERIENCES IN HUMANITARIAN CONTEXTS
6. Chapter 1. Dignity Under Extreme Duress: The Moral and Emotional Landscape of Local Humanitarian Workers in the Afghan-Pakistan Border Areas 23
7. Chapter 2. Compassion and Care at the Limits of Privilege: Haitian Doctors amid the Influx of Foreign Humanitarian Volunteers 41
8. Chapter 3. Trust and Caregiving During a UNICEF-Funded Relief Operation in the Somali Region of Ethiopia 58
9. PART II. THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANITARIAN KNOWLEDGE, ETHICS, AND IMPERATIVES
10. Chapter 4. Evidence and Narratives: Recounting Lethal Violence in Darfur, Sudan 77
11. Chapter 5. Life Beyond the Bubbles: Cognitive Dissonance and Humanitarian Impunity in Northern Uganda 96
12. Chapter 6. Staging a ‘‘Medical Coup’’? Médecins Sans Frontières and the 2005 Food Crisis in Niger 119
13. PART III. STRONG STATES, WEAK STATES, AND CONTESTED HEALTH SOVEREIGNTIES
14. Chapter 7. What Happens When MSF Leaves? Humanitarian Departure and Medical Sovereignty in Postconflict Liberia 137
15. Chapter 8. Humanitarianism and ‘‘Mobile Sovereignty’’ in Strong State Settings: Reflections on Medical Humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia 155
16. Chapter 9. The British Military Medical Services and Contested Humanitarianism 176
17. PART IV. THE AFTERLIVES OF INTERVENTION
18. Chapter 10. Anthropology and Medical Humanitarianism in the Age of Global Health Education 193
19. Chapter 11. The Creation of Emergency and Afterlife of Intervention: Reflections on Guinea Worm Eradication in Ghana 209
20. Chapter 12. Medical NGOs in Strong States: Working the Margins of the Israeli Medical Bureaucracy 226
21. Conclusion. A Measured Good 242
22. List of Contributors 253
23. Index 261