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Author Sweis, Rania Kassab, author.

Title Paradoxes of care : children and global medical aid in Egypt / Rania Kassab Sweis.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 193 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Sheltering children -- Healthcare on patrol -- (In)visible wounds -- Do Muslim village girls need saving? -- Professional ambivalence.
Summary "Paradoxes of Care examines how prominent global aid organizations attempt to care for vulnerable children in Egypt through biomedical interventions and global healthcare programs. Focusing on two main child recipients-street children and out-of-school village girls-this in-depth ethnographic study reveals how global aid fails to "save" these children according to its stated aims but rather produces paradoxes of care for children and local aid workers. In capturing medical humanitarian encounters in real time, Paradoxes of Care illustrates how child recipients and local aid experts grapple, together, with global aid's shortcomings as well as its paradoxical outcomes in Egypt. By foregrounding vulnerable children's responses to global medical aid, this book moves past the unquestioned benevolence of global health in the Middle East to demonstrate how children manage their bodies and lives both with and without the assistance of global medicine"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Child health services -- Egypt.
Child health services.
Egypt.
Children -- Health and hygiene -- Egypt.
Medical assistance -- Egypt.
Children -- Health and hygiene.
Medical assistance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Children.
Other Form: Print version: Sweis, Rania Kassab. Paradoxes of care. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021 9781503628502 (DLC) 2020044966
ISBN 9781503628649 (electronic book)
1503628647 (electronic book)
9781503628502 (hardcover)
9781503628632 (paperback)