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Doctors Without Borders Website

DateWednesday, December 1, 2010 at 11:23AM

The Doctors Without Borders website offers virtual tours through their medical landscapes. For example, this link brings us to a cholera treatment center and the basic decencies and infrastructure built to stop a public health epidemic in Haiti:

http://ctc.msf.org/home/en

Clicking on a part of the image provides more information, guiding one through what must be an intense space to be in actual life.

The website juxtaposes well with Paul Farmer's book Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (2003, University of California Press) in which the idea of structural violence is explained as contributing to disease and epidemics and disregard for human rights.

AuthorMargaret Vaughan | CommentPost a Comment |

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