Thesis
Coordination in crisis: the practice of medical humanitarian emergency
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This thesis in anthropology investigates how emergency is socially constituted as a named and actionable entity. Specifically, it asks how human values and techno-scientific practices contribute to the constitution of emergency in the context of medical humanitarian intervention. The study considers emergency from an ethnographic perspective, as a group of international medical humanitarian practitioners from the aid group Médecins San Frontières (MSF) come to understand and respo...
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Authors
Contributors
+ Ulijaszek, S
Department:
Anthropology
Role:
Supervisor
+ Lezaun, J
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Sub department:
inSIS
Role:
Examiner
+ Dolan, C
Department:
SOAS University of London
Role:
Examiner
Funding
+ Commonwealth Doctoral Scholarship
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Funding agency for:
Stellmach, D
Grant:
CACR-2012-48
+ Royal Anthropological Institute and the Sutasoma Trust
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Funding agency for:
Stellmach, D
Grant:
Sutasoma Award
Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2017-01-17
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- Copyright holder:
- Stellmach, D; Darryl Stellmach
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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