Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina -- and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.
Here the author, a physician and reporter provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the …
Bringing life into relief : comparative ethnographies of humanitarian practice / Sharon Abramowitz and Catherine Panter-Brick -- Dignity under extreme duress : the moral and emotional landscape of local humanitarian workers in the Afghan-Pakistan border areas / Patricia Omidian …
Medical humanitarianism--medical and other health-related initiatives undertaken in conditions born of conflict, neglect, or disaster--has a prominent and growing presence in international development, global health, and human security interventions. [This book] features twelve …