Rania Kassab Sweis

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Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in EgyptPaperback, 29 June 2021

Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt
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Part of Series
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
Print Length
208 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Date Published
29 Jun 2021
ISBN-10
1503628639
ISBN-13
9781503628632

Description

Each year, billions of dollars are spent on global humanitarian health initiatives. These efforts are intended to care for suffering bodies, especially those of distressed children living in poverty. But as global medical aid can often overlook the local economic and political systems that cause bodily suffering, it can also unintentionally prolong the very conditions that hurt children and undermine local aid givers. Investigating medical humanitarian encounters in Egypt, Paradoxes of Care illustrates how child aid recipients and local aid experts grapple with global aid's shortcomings and its paradoxical outcomes.

Rania Kassab Sweis examines how some of the world's largest aid organizations care for vulnerable children in Egypt, focusing on medical efforts with street children and out-of-school village girls. Her in-depth ethnographic study reveals how global medical aid fails to "save" these children according to its stated aims, and often maintains-or produces new-social disparities in children's lives. Foregrounding vulnerable children's responses to medical aid, Sweis moves past the unquestioned benevolence of global health to demonstrate how children must manage their own bodies and lives in the absence of adult care. With this book, she challenges readers to engage with the question of what medical caregivers and donors alike gain from such global humanitarian transactions.

Product Details

Author:
Rania Kassab Sweis
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
29 June 2021
Dimensions:
22.61 x 14.81 x 1.4 cm
Genre:
Middle Eastern
ISBN-10:
1503628639
ISBN-13:
9781503628632
Language:
English
Pages:
208
Weight:
272.16 gm

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