Humanitarian anthropology : conference with Sharon Abramowitz
Sharon Abramowitz
The Crash team had the pleasure of welcoming Sharon Abramowitz, American medical anthropologist and author of "Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice", for a conference-debate on October 23, 2017. The meeting was prepared and moderated by Michaël Neuman.
Sharon Abramowitz is an anthropologist and a visiting researcher at the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University, co-editor of recently published Medical humanitarianism. Ethnographies of practice. She has devoted much of her work to responding to epidemics - most recently in Ebola, and in West Africa, Liberia in particular.
During this conference, she discussed the contribution of medical anthropology to humanitarian action as well as her latest book and most recent projects.
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