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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)

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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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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