Amy Kravitz - Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine

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Now seen as a branch of clinical practice which deals collectively with human misfortunes that affect health beyond the individual, Humanitarian Medicine embraces the predicaments of groups of people with shared experiences in facing calamities: calamities that are either immediately apparentor waiting to strike.

Despite intense media exposure and ostensible political support by disinterested parties, in truth many campaigns in Humanitarian Medicine have proved social misfits lacking loyal and authoritative parents; judged retrospectively as they must be, their effects signal bitter political failure.

With the Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine, Dr Amy Kravitz and her contributors have authored a unique and original guide: not simply to the practical relief of critical and fast-emerging ground emergencies with plague, pestilences, starvation, torture and war-related human disasters of every possible kind, but to essential strategic measures. The authors succinctly explore the need to predict, to resource, as well as develop tailor-made advocacy for political and economic solutions to the unique conflation of forces that can drive populations ineluctably to doom.

This handbook goes beyond simple therapy; it seeks to promote, provide, and instruct. Within the ethical framework of conventional medicine, it offers support those who holistically improve well-being and health of populations while conforming to the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Red Cross and Crescent Conventions, and other accepted canons of practice. Naturally there is a complex political dimension in this field; and the practitioner of Humanitarian Medicine must at all costs operate systematically with discretion to avoid neo-colonial dominance and dependence at all costs. At the same time, there is really no place for the parachute mentality related to theatrical international emergencies apparently promulgated in global media. Usually local conditions of healthcare are fractured and, after military intervention and colonization, wayward and permanently starved of resources. Not only is diplomacy and sharing of resources and responsibility between multiple agencies crucial; but the need for ethical refinement and disinterested investment, is paramount.