DHM

Humanitarian Medicine and Organizations

Encyclopedia entry to the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society by PI Professor Taithe on Humanitarian Medicine and Organizations.

Forthcoming book: Humanitarian handicraft

This book uncovers the overlooked history of artisanal textiles in projects aimed at social uplift and moral reform. The contributors ask what the implications of this form of gendered craft production are for our understanding of the humanitarian imagination, relations of humanitarian production and the generation of meaning and social and artistic value. It also opens a dialogue with contemporary socially-engaged textile artists to engender critical reflection on the socially-situated meaning of textile craft in past and present humanitarian contexts.

Book Publication: Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long Second World War, 1931-1953

This book explores underexamined sites of interactions and encounters between humanitarians and medical workers during the long Second World War (1931-1953).It traces circulations of humanitarian actors, knowledge, and practices across the world from a conflict to another. In doing so, it demonstrates that the conflict brought about unlikely aid coalitions and intimate networks of aid, and led to a transformation of the relationships between some European organisations and colonial 'peripheries', leading to the emergence of new activities and actors.

Journal Article: Making Hepatitis C History?

This article investigates how a medical non-governmental organisation Médecins sans frontières (MSF) developed and promoted the treatment of Hepatitis C (HCV) in Cambodia. The article argues that such a campaign represents a new development for the history of humanitarian medicine. As an experimental historical project, we aimed to capture how a humanitarian organisation defined its intervention as a ‘proof of concept’ and developed a public health campaign from a vertical approach reliant on new and very effective treatments. This article is also available in French: https://msf-crash.org/fr/medecine-et-sante-publique/lhepatite-c-entre-dans-lhistoire-medecins-sans-frontieres-lhepatite-c-et

Journal Article: Constructing Success: The World Bank, Onchocerciasis Control, and What Lies Beneath Triumphalist Global Health Narratives

Using a historical case study of the World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO)’s Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP, 1972–2002), Janelle Winters explore how success is conceptualised in global health and why it matters for policy and priority-setting.

Policy Brief: Key considerations: Food assistance prioritisation in refugee settlements in Uganda and its impacts

This brief provides considerations around the humanitarian and policy implications of the general food and cash assistance (GFA) prioritisation strategy in Uganda’s refugee settlements.

Policy Brief: Key considerations: Food assistance prioritisation in refugee settlements in Uganda and its impacts

This brief provides considerations around the humanitarian and policy implications of the general food and cash assistance (GFA) prioritisation strategy in Uganda’s refugee settlements.

Policy Brief: Key considerations: Food assistance prioritisation in refugee settlements in Uganda and its impacts

This brief provides considerations around the humanitarian and policy implications of the general food and cash assistance (GFA) prioritisation strategy in Uganda’s refugee settlements.

Policy Brief: Key considerations: Food assistance prioritisation in refugee settlements in Uganda and its impacts

This brief provides considerations around the humanitarian and policy implications of the general food and cash assistance (GFA) prioritisation strategy in Uganda’s refugee settlements.