Sharon Abramowitz and Michaël Neuman during MSF Crash conference about humanitarian anthropology
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Humanitarian anthropology : conference with Sharon Abramowitz

Sharon
Abramowitz

Sharon Abramowitz is an anthropologist.

She has conducted research on community-based response to epidemics and pandemic events, Ebola, humanitarian intervention, mental health, gender-based violence, and post-conflict reconstruction in West Africa since 2000. She is the author of Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War (University of Pennsylvania Press 2014), co-editor of Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015)

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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 the conference organized by MSF-Crash on 23 October 2017, she discussed the contribution of medical anthropology to humanitarian action as well as her latest book and most recent projects.

https://msf-crash.org/en/conferences-debates/humanitarian-anthropology-conference-sharon-abramowitz

To cite this content :
Sharon Abramowitz, “Humanitarian anthropology : conference with Sharon Abramowitz”, 23 octobre 2017, URL : https://msf-crash.org/en/conferences-debates/humanitarian-anthropology-conference-sharon-abramowitz

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