Haiti after the earthquake
"On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured. In this vivid narrative, Farmer descri...
| Main Author: | Farmer, Paul, 1959- |
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| Other Authors: | Mukherjee, Joia. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
PublicAffairs,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Nèg Mawon / Joia S. Mukherjee
- Writing about Suffering. The catastrophe
- Praxis and policy: the years before the quake
- January 12 and the aftermath
- A history of the present illness
- Into the camps
- From relief to reconstruction (building back better?)
- Reconstruction in the time of cholera
- Looking forward while looking back: lessons from Rwanda
- Epilogue January 12, 2011
- Other Voices. Art / Catherine Bertrand Farmer
- Women. Lòt Bò Dlo : the other side of the water / Edwidge Danticat
- Sim Pa Rele (If I don't shout) / Michèle Montas-Dominique
- Goudou Goudou / Nancy Dorsinville
- Mothers and daughters of Haiti / Didi Bertrand Farmer
- Doctors. Humanitarian aid, impartiality, and dirty boots / Louise Ivers
- Lopital Jeneral struggles to survive / Evan Lyon
- Doctors in tents / Dubique Kobel
- Those who survived / Naomi Rosenberg
- Humanitarians. First we need taxis / Timothy T. Schwartz
- The official / Jennie Weiss Block
- Build back better / Jéhane Sedky.