Where They Need Me

Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti

Pierre Minn

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English

Cornell University Press
15 September 2022

History of the Americas; Anthropology; Physical anthropology & ethnography; Public health & preventive medicine

Where They Need Me examines the work of Haitian health professionals in humanitarian aid encounters. Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initiatives, many are implemented within the secular framework of global health. Pierre Minn illustrates the divergent criteria that actors involved in global health use to evaluate interventions' efficacy.

Haitian physicians, nurses, and administrative staff are hired to carry out these global health programs, distribute or withhold resources, and produce accounts of interventions' outcomes. In their roles as intermediaries, Haitian clinicians are expected not only to embody the humanitarian projects of foreign funders and care for their impoverished patients but also to act as sources of support for their own kin networks, while negotiating their future prospects in a climate of pronounced scarcity and insecurity. In Where They Need Me, Minn argues that a serious consideration of these local health care providers in the context of global health is essential to counter simplistic depictions of clinicians and patients as heroes, villains, or victims as well as to move beyond the donor-recipient dyad that has dominated theoretical work on humanitarianism and the gift.

By: Pierre Minn
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781501763847
ISBN 10: 1501763849
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 15 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction 1. The Logic of Uncoordination 2. ""Working Together for Health"" at the Hôpital Universitaire Justinien 3. Between a Fund and a Hard Place 4. Components of a Moral Economy 5. Saints, Villains, and Champions Conclusion"

Pierre Minn is Associate Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Social and Preventive Medicine at the Université de Montréal.