Conflict and Health in a Turbulent Middle East and North Africa
Anthropological Perspectives
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Conflict and Health in a Turbulent Middle East and North Africa
Anthropological Perspectives
- Open Access
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Description
Several of the world's most violent conflicts and largest humanitarian crises are taking place in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), including in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and Sudan. Even in Middle Eastern countries no longer at war, such as Iraq and Syria, legacies of warfare have taken a devastating toll. This open access book is designed to assess the health effects of these MENA conflicts and to highlight what is being done to overcome them. The state-of-the-art volume features the work of leading medical anthropologists, whose ethnographic case studies shed light on the political, socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental impacts of conflict, and the complexity of addressing them through timely programs and humanitarian interventions.
The volume explores the lives of MENA medical humanitarians, as well as the people they serve, with a special focus on women and children who are the groups most impacted by the conditions in war zones and refugee camps. Subjects discussed include: the reproductive health consequences of chemical weaponry, , the breakdown of medical and public health services and the resulting spread of infectious disease, and inadequate support for those with war-related disabilities, especially children. Taken together, the fifteen case studies advocate for the right to health for people who find themselves living in war-torn, post-conflict, and refugee-serving settings across the MENA region. The volume also issues a strong call for peace as a prerequisite for physical, mental, and social well-being andjustice.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Yale University.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Salmaan Keshavjee and Hani Mowafi
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Conflict and Health in a Turbulent Middle East and North Africa (Marcia C. Inhorn)
Part I. Conflict and Health
Chapter 1 Death of the Clinic (Omar Dewachi)
Chapter 2 Anti-Generational Health Impacts of Military Violence in Iraq (Kali Rubaii)
Chapter 3 Cancer in a Collapsing City: Serious Illness and Everyday Life in Beirut (Livia Wick)
Chapter 4 Strengthening Public Health Surveillance in Conflict Zones: A Case Study from Sudan (Kaveh Khoshnood, Faihaa Dafalla, Eman Salih, and Ahmad Izzoddeen)
Chapter 5 Everything in Moderation: Security, Sexuality, and Abortion in Morocco
(Jess Marie Newman)
Part II. Medical Humanitarianism
Chapter 6 Gaza,MedicalHumanitarianism,andtheHeroicsofDr.Mohammed Tahir (Sa'ed Atshan)
Chapter 7 The Making of a Medical Humanitarian: War, Medicine, and Migration in the Life of One Syrian-American Doctor (Rania K. Sweis)
Chapter 8 Reproducing Empire: Humanitarian Governance in Gendered Health Interventions (Morgen A. Chalmiers)
Chapter 9 Precarity, Humanitarianism, and HIV/AIDS in Beirut, Lebanon (Elizabeth Berk)
Chapter 10 Genealogies of the Psychosocial: Post-Disaster Psychiatry in Turkey (Christopher Dole)
Part III. Disability Futures
Chapter 11 Prosthetic Promises: A Transnational Story of Disability, Violence, and Care (Salih Can Açiksöz)
Chapter 12 “Implanted with Hope”? Promissory Logics of Cochlear Implantation in Jordan (Timothy Y. Loh)
Chapter 13 Unmaking Down Syndrome: Genocide in Gaza and the Failures of Disability Rights (Christine Sargent)
Chapter 14 From Disability Justice to Decolonization: Delayed Death, Disabled Life, and Childhood in Gaza (Samee Sulaiman)
Chapter 15 The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) of War: Charting the Fate and Future of Children in Gaza, Sudan, and Beyond (Marcia C. Inhorn)
Product details
| Published | 18 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781350617278 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 75 b&w images |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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