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Response to 'On Complicity and Compromise' by Chiara Lepora and Robert Goodin

Calain P
2016-09-26 • Journal of Medical Ethics
2016-09-26 • Journal of Medical Ethics
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...
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Understanding Power Relationships: Commentary on Wurr C and Cooney L (2014) 'Ethical Dilemmas in Population-Level Treatment of Lead Poisoning in Zamfara State, Nigeria'

Calain P
2014-09-17 • Public Health Ethics
2014-09-17 • Public Health Ethics
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Commentary

Counterterrorism policies and practices: health and values at stake

Eckenwiler L, Hunt M, Ahmad ASI, Calain P, Dawson A,  et al.
2015-08-31 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2015-08-31 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Research

High prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, Swaziland, 2009-2010

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...
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Letter

Defective interfering genomes and Ebola virus persistence

Calain P, Roux L, Kolakofsky D
2016-08-13 • Lancet
2016-08-13 • Lancet
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Commentary

Reaching out to Ebola victims: Coercion, persuasion or an appeal for self-sacrifice?

Calain P, Poncin M
2015-12-01 • Social Science and Medicine
2015-12-01 • Social Science and Medicine
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Commentary

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...
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Commentary

The Ebola clinical trials: a precedent for research ethics in disasters

Calain P
2016-08-29 • Journal of Medical Ethics
2016-08-29 • Journal of Medical Ethics
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...
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Commentary

In search of the 'new informal legitimacy' of Médecins Sans Frontières

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...
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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....
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Letter

Extractive resources and the Ebola economy

Calain P
2015-01-13 • African Affairs
2015-01-13 • African Affairs
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Coincident polio and Ebola crises expose similar fault lines in the current global health regime

Calain P, Abu SaDa C
2015-09-16 • Conflict and Health
2015-09-16 • Conflict and Health
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What is the relationship of medical humanitarian organisations with mining and other extractive industries?

Calain P
2012-08-28 • PLOS Medicine
2012-08-28 • PLOS Medicine
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...
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The Evolving Role of CSR in International Development: Evidence from Canadian Extractive Companies’ Involvement in Community Health Initiatives in Low-Income Countries

Lamb S, Jennings J, Calain P
2017-05-31 • Extractive Industries and Society
2017-05-31 • Extractive Industries and Society
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 ...
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Ethics and images of suffering bodies in humanitarian medicine

Calain P
2012-07-27 • Social Science and Medicine
2012-07-27 • Social Science and Medicine
Media representations of suffering bodies from medical humanitarian organisations raise ethical questions, which deserve critical attention for at least three reasons. Firstly, there is ...