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Communicating During Humanitarian Medical Crises: The Consequences of Silence or "témoignage"

Lanham; Boulder; New York: Lexington Books (2019), ix, 294 pp.

Contains index

ISBN 978-1-4985-9318-2 (hbk)

ICRC non-interventionism and Spanish gas attacks in Morocco, 1921-1926
The international committee of the Red Cross, Swiss nationalism, and debates over Holocaust silences
The Nigeria-Biafra War and promotion of the principle of témoignage by Médecins sans Frontières
The 1984-1986 Ethiopian famine, relocations, and ouster of MSF from famine relief efforts
The MSF 2014 warnings about the advent of the "West African" Ebola epidemic
Tèmoignage, the 2015 Kunduz bombing incident, and allegations of "war crimes"
Counterterrorism and the "weaponization" of medical humanitarianism during the 21st century