Conflict and Health in a Turbulent Middle East and North Africa
Anthropological Perspectives
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:18th Feb '27
£85.00
This title is due to be published on 18th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This book focuses on the dire health impacts of war in the Middle East and North Africa, highlighting the need for medical humanitarianism amidst regional turbulence. The volume comprises the contributions of the world's leading medical anthropologists.
Several of the world’s most violent conflicts and largest humanitarian crises are taking place in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), including in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and Sudan. Even in Middle Eastern countries no longer at war, such as Iraq and Syria, legacies of warfare have taken a devastating toll. This open access book is designed to assess the health effects of these MENA conflicts and to highlight what is being done to overcome them. The state-of-the-art volume features the work of leading medical anthropologists, whose ethnographic case studies shed light on the political, socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental impacts of conflict, and the complexity of addressing them through timely programs and humanitarian interventions.
The volume explores the lives of MENA medical humanitarians, as well as the people they serve, with a special focus on women and children who are the groups most impacted by the conditions in war zones and refugee camps. Subjects discussed include: the reproductive health consequences of chemical weaponry, , the breakdown of medical and public health services and the resulting spread of infectious disease, and inadequate support for those with war-related disabilities, especially children. Taken together, the fifteen case studies advocate for the right to health for people who find themselves living in war-torn, post-conflict, and refugee-serving settings across the MENA region. The volume also issues a strong call for peace as a prerequisite for physical, mental, and social well-being andjustice.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on
Bloomsbury Collections. Open access was funded by Yale University.
This book ticks every box for me: current, politically engaged, theoretically interesting, good geographical and topical coverage. Individually, the chapters are important and timely, but collectively, this is a volume that tells a bigger story about the relationship between reproductive health (both maternity and childhood, sexuality and gender) and war, violence, displacement and genocide. It meets a need that I have for materials to teach with that highlight current scholarship on hot topics in medical anthropology and public health, but it will also be read widely beyond those disciplines. -- Lisa L. Wynn, Professor of Anthropology, School of Communication, Society and Culture, Macquarie University, Sydney
Professor Marcia C. Inhorn has assembled an extraordinary collection addressing one of the most critical humanitarian issues of our time: the intersection of conflict, precarity, and health in the Middle East and North Africa. Bringing together closely observed ethnographic accounts alongside broader structural analysis, this work stands as an indispensable resource for understanding the complex healthcare challenges facing vulnerable populations across this turbulent region. * Nefissa Naguib, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway *
Marcia Inhorn’s edited volume is a truly necessary contribution to understanding the health experiences of those living under prolonged civil conflict. The contributors weave a sophisticated and lucid description of anthropological and social science theories, with equally clear analyses of the health conditions being addressed. This volume will be indispensable to healthcare professionals, bioethicists, and public health specialists, scholars and students of social science. * Sandra D Lane, Research Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical University, USA *
ISBN: 9781350617278
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304 pages