Chiara Lepora and Robert Goodin invite us to join their insightful ‘conversation’ on complicity and compromise. Their book makes a dense, utterly precise and rewarding reading, as one pr...
Sanchez-Padilla E, Dlamini T, Ascorra A, Rusch-Gerdes S, Tefera ZD, et al.
2012-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2012-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
In Africa, although emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) represents a serious threat in countries severely affected by the HIV epidemic, most countries lack drug-resi...
Research Ethics and International Epidemic Response: The Case of Ebola and Marburg Hemmorrhagic Fevers
Calain P, Fiore N, Poncin M
2009-04-01 • Public Health Ethics
2009-04-01 • Public Health Ethics
Outbreaks of filovirus (Ebola and Marburg) hemorrhagic fevers in Africa are typically the theater of rescue activities involving international experts and agencies tasked with reinforcin...
The West African Ebola epidemic has set in motion a collective endeavour to conduct accelerated clinical trials, testing unproven but potentially lifesaving interventions in the course o...
Calain P
2011-12-30 • Public Health Ethics
2011-12-30 • Public Health Ethics
For medical humanitarian organizations, making their sources of legitimacy explicit is a useful exercise, in response to: misperceptions, concerns over the 'humanitarian space', controve...
The interaction between humanitarian non-governmental organisations and extractive industries: a perspective from Medecins Sans Frontieres
Calain P
2013-09-12 • International Review of the Red Cross
2013-09-12 • International Review of the Red Cross
AbstractThis opinion note explores some aspects of the relationship between humanitarian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and extractive industries....
Philippe Calain discusses the health and environmental hazards of extractive industries like mining and explores the tensions that arise when medical humanitarian organizations are calle...
Overseas development agencies and international finance organisations view the exploitation of minerals as a strategy for alleviating poverty in low-income countries. However, for local ...
Media representations of suffering bodies from medical humanitarian organisations raise ethical questions, which deserve critical attention for at least three reasons. Firstly, there is ...
