New publication by members of the humanitarian health ethics research group as part of a project on the ethics of closing humanitarian projects. Link to article: https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/articles/hh63t218k?locale=en Abstract Purpose In this paper, the authors propose a new lens to examine…
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Without the ‘local’ we cannot re-imagine humanitarian health ethics
Blog Series: (Re)Imagining Humanitarian Health Ethics By Isabel Muñoz Beaulieu The future of humanitarian ethics needs to define what is meant by ‘local.’ The call to localized approaches in the humanitarian discourse has quickly expanded when big funders, large humanitarian…
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(Re)imagining Humanitarian Health Ethics
22/03/2022 What form should bioethics take in the years to come? It’s clear the status quo is not enough. This is true for humanitarian health ethics. Although there are valuable foundations, pathways, ideas to build on – or so we…
ALNAP releases SOHS 2015.
Every three years ALNAP releases a State of the Humanitarian System (SOHS) report that looks back at humanitarian assistance over that time period with a goal of responding to the question: How well is humanitarian assistance performing? Commissioned by ALNAP and authored…
The Humanitarian Politics of Cecil the Lion
In case you missed it, in late July, Walter Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, beheaded Cecil, a lion living in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. Indeed, the poaching of Cecil the lion was unfortunate. But the righteous expressions of moral high ground that accompanied media discussions lay bare some key issues around representations of Africa that warrant further attention. Public shaming of Mr. Palmer focused on outrage over his sense of Western entitlement that led him to disregard Zimbabwean laws to kill “Africa's most beloved lion”. Ironically, these selective narratives play into the same power dynamics and sense of entitlement that they set out to critique.
New Case Study Available
Are injections better than pills?
Two months ago, an international medical NGO established a project to support local health clinics and introduce a new malaria treatment program that consists of taking two pills once a day for three days. It would replace the currently available treatment of daily injections. Local health professionals are hesitant about the change in treatment protocol when it is presented to them. The local community, including some local health workers, voice their concern about this treatment; in their opinion injections are better than pills, and more pills are better than a few. Some local health workers are also sceptical that this new treatment regimen will be available once the non-governmental organization leaves the area. What’s more, community health workers have heard that some local health providers have discouraged patients from accepting the new treatment.
Nicaraguan Perceptions of Humanitarian Healthcare Missions
Ethics Grand Rounds Title: Nicaraguan Perceptions of Humanitarian Healthcare Missions Speaker: Elysée Nouvet Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2014 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: McMaster University Medical Centre 4E20
Humanitarian Health Ethics 