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Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long Second World War, 1931-1953

Edited by Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Laure Humbert, Bertrand Taithe and Raphaële Balu

Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long Second World War, 1931-1953
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  • ISBN: 9781526183477
  • Publish Date: Jul 2025
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    This book offers a micro-global history of humanitarianism and medical care during the 'long' Second World War, which challenges the traditional and Eurocentric chronological boundaries of 1939/1945. It takes as its starting point the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, which led to the progressive dislocation of the League of Nations, with the Japanese, German and Soviet departures in the 1930s. It ends with the termination of the Korean War in 1953, and the subsequent dismantlement of the first United Coalition and UN Peace enforcement operation. It considers the slow, messy and ambivalent transformation of humanitarian actors' relations to the suffering of distant others through a study of humanitarian encounters, practices, spaces and affects. Paying close attention to a variety of actors, such as French colonial doctors, Swiss ICRC delegates, Egyptian relief workers, Chinese-style physicians, Peruvian and Ecuadorian nurses or American member of the Unitarian Service Committee, the book provides a more holistic story of humanitarianism.

    Contents

    Introduction: Humanitarianism and Medical Care during the 'Long' Second World War, 1931-1953
    Marie Luce Desgrandchamps, Laure Humbert, Bertrand Taithe and Raphaële Balu
    1 Humanitarianism, Estrangement and Intimacies during the 'long' Second World War: New Historiographical Perspectives
    Laure Humbert
    2 Colonial Medicine and 'Black Strength' in the French colonies of Africa during the 'long' Second World War
    Delphine Peiretti-Courtis
    3 Africa, the Africans, and the Red Cross: Assessing the Impact of the Long Second World War (1935-1950)
    Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps
    4 (Un)Settling Intimacies: Boundaries of Aid in a North African Refugee Camp, 1944-1946
    Esther Möller and Katharina Stornigi
    5 "National Defense Medicine": Chinese-style physicians and medical relief during the war against Japan
    Jean Corbi
    6 'There is no Enemy Here!' Humanitarian Rhetoric in South America during the Second World War: Peru/Ecuador
    François Bignon
    7 Unitarian Service Committee's activities with refugee populations and the Resistance in France during and after the Second World War
    Jon Arrizabalaga and Àlvar Martínez-Vidal
    8 Cultural actors in rehabilitation: WW2 craft therapy and White, ableist, heteronormative masculinity
    Jennifer Way
    9 Trauma of Warfare: Maxillofacial Surgery and Medical Relief in Wartime China, 1948 to 1956
    Jinghong Zhang
    10 Dying on enemy ground. The ICRC and the German soldiers killed in France during WWII
    Taline Garibian

    Editors

    Raphaële Balu, Postdoctoral Fellow at Sorbonne University
    Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Lecturer at the Université of Geneva
    Laure Humbert, Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester
    Bertrand Taithe, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Manchester

    Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long Second World War, 1931-1953

    Edited by Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Laure Humbert, Bertrand Taithe, Raphaële Balu

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