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Killing with Kindness

Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs

By Mark Schuller; Foreword by Paul Farmer
Rutgers University Press

Set in Haiti following the 2004 coup and enhanced by research carried out after the 2010 earthquake, Killing with Kindness analyzes the impact of official development aid on recipient non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their relationships with local communities. It offers rich ethnographic comparisons of two Haitian women’s NGOs working in HIV/AIDS prevention and examines participation and autonomy as well as donor policies that inhibit these goals. 

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Global Health in Times of Violence

School for Advanced Research Press

Over 24 million people have died in these conflicts, and millions more suffered illness and injury. In this volume, leading scholars and practitioners examine the impact of structural, military, and communal violence on health, psychosocial well-being, and health care delivery. By investigating the fields of violence that define our modern world, the authors are able to provide alternative global health paradigms that can be used to develop more effective policies and programs.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Santiago's Children

What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile

By Steve Reifenberg; Introduction by Paul Farmer
University of Texas Press

A beautifully written memoir about life among the most vulnerable, yet resilient residents of Latin America—its poor children.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Reproducing Inequities

Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti

Rutgers University Press

In Reproducing Inequities, M. Catherine Maternowska argues that we too easily overlook the political dynamics that shape choices about family planning. Through a detailed study of the attempt to provide modern contraception in the community of Cité Soleil, Maternowska demonstrates the complex interplay between local and global politics that so often thwarts well-intended policy initiatives.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Killing with Kindness

Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs

By Mark Schuller; Foreword by Paul Farmer
Rutgers University Press

Set in Haiti following the 2004 coup and enhanced by research carried out after the 2010 earthquake, Killing with Kindness analyzes the impact of official development aid on recipient non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their relationships with local communities. It offers rich ethnographic comparisons of two Haitian women’s NGOs working in HIV/AIDS prevention and examines participation and autonomy as well as donor policies that inhibit these goals. 

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