Medicine and public health

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Utopies Sanitaires

09/01/2000 Rony Brauman

Humanitaire ou non, la médecine est d'abord la médecine. Elle soigne des hommes et non des statistiques. A partir de récit d'expériences, d'enquêtes et d'études comparatives, ce livre propose une réflexion sur la diversité et les enjeux des pratiques médicales dans le monde.

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Populations in danger 1995

11/01/1995 François Jean

« Never again »: in the wake of the second World War, the terror caused by the Holocaust led the community of states to condemn genocide as a crime and to create a new international organization, the United Nations. And yet, half a century later, the international community did nothing to prevent the first undeniable genocide since that of the Jews: it let the massacre of the Rwandan Tutsis and merely sent humanitarian aid, even though it was nearly over.  

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Life, Death and Aid

11/01/1993 François Jean

With the end of the Cold War came the hope of a "New World Order". yet the tragedies of war and famine continue to dominate our headlines. Humanitarian law is still violated every day. Emergency aid from the United Nations and donor governments remains inadequate and military interventions often fail to restore durable peace.

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