The practice of medical humanitarian emergency: an ethnography of practitioners’ response to nutritional crisis

Principal investigator

Darryl Stellmach
Purpose of study
Purpose of study

To describe and understand the human and technological factors that contribute to the constitution of emergency as a named and actionable entity in the context of medical humanitarianism.

Study status

  • Concept
  • Protocol & ERB
  • Implementation
  • Completion
  • Archived

Study timeline

Publications

  • Anthropology in public health emergencies: what is anthropology good for?
    Stellmach, Darryl "–" BMJ "(2018)"
  • Anthropological approaches to medical humanitarianism
    Beshar, Isabel "–" Medicine Anthropology Theory "(2017)"
  • Sticky technologies: Plumpy’nut®, emergency feeding and the viscosity of humanitarian design
    Scott-Smith, Tom "–" SAGE Publications "(2018)"
  • The field is ever further: In search of the elusive space of fieldwork
    Stellmach, Darryl "–" SAGE Publications "(2020)"
  • 'State of emergency': the politics of Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak, 2008/09
    Chigudu, Simukai "–" [PhD thesis] University of Oxford "(2017)"
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