This book explores underexamined sites of interactions and encounters between humanitarians and medical workers during the long Second World War (1931-1953).It traces circulations of humanitarian actors, knowledge, and practices across the world from a conflict to another. In doing so, it demonstrates that the conflict brought about unlikely aid coalitions and intimate networks of aid, and led to a transformation of the relationships between some European organisations and colonial ‘peripheries’, leading to the emergence of new activities and actors. This book also interrogates the traditional dichotomy between civilian and military cultures of rehabilitation, and readdresses the role of the United States and its rise as a ‘humanitarian superpower’.
This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and medical care during the long Second World War, tracing circulations of humanitarian actors, discourses, knowledge, and practices across the world from the war in China in 1931 to the Korean War in 1953.
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'Good international history challenges our interpretations of the past, deepens our understanding of contemporary developments, and sets new paths for future research. For all these reasons, this landmark volume deserves a wide readership. By investigating the imperial context and multi-faceted development of humanitarianism (193152), it provides essential context for the debates and challenges in the contemporary humanitarian sector.' Susan Armstrong-Reid, Social History of Medicine -- .
Introduction: 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. Africa, the Africans, and the Red Cross: Assessing the Impact
of the Long Second World War (1935-1950), Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps
3 (Un)Settling Intimacies. Boundaries of Aid in a North African Refugee
Camp, 19441946 Esther Möller and Katharina Stornig
4 National Defense Medicine: Chinese-style physicians and medical
relief during the war against Japan Jean Corbi
5 There is no Enemy Here! Humanitarian Rhetoric in South America
during the Second World War: Peru/Ecuador François Bignon
6 Unitarian Service Committees activities with refugee populations and
the Resistance in France during and after the Second World War Jon
Arrizabalaga and Àlvar Martínez-Vidal
7 Cultural actors in rehabilitation: WW2 craft therapy and White,
ableist, heteronormative masculinity Jennifer Way
8 Trauma of Warfare: Maxillofacial Surgery and Medical Relief in Wartime
China, 1948 to 1956 Jinghong Zhang
9 Dying on enemy ground. The ICRC and the German soldiers killed in
France during WWII Taline Garibian
Index -- .
Marie Luce Desgrandchamps, Lecturer, University of Geneva, Senior Researcher, University of Fribourg Laure Humbert, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester Bertrand Taithe, Professor, University of Manchester Raphaële Balu, Editorial Manager, Sorbonne University -- .
