Adia Benton
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Man\power and violence at the thresholds of humanitarian and anthropological reason
CRITICAL COMMENTARY Man\power and violence at the thresholds of humanitarian and anthropological reason Adia Benton, Corresponding Author Adia Benton Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA Correspondence Adia Benton, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Achievement in Public Health Disservice by a Non-Public Health Professional: Emily Oster — PESTE
Emily Oster, Brown University economist, has a history of controversial economic analyses of health and demographic problems. In 2005, she questioned the utility of offering anti-retroviral therapies to AIDS patients in poor countries. She also argued that China’s “missing women” were not an effect of femicide or sex discrimination, but could instead be attributed to high prevalence of hepatitis B infections.
Achievement in Public Health Disservice by a Non-Public Health Professional — PESTE
Emily Oster, Brown University economist, has a history of controversial economic analyses of health and demographic problems. In 2005, she questioned the utility of offering anti-retroviral therapies to AIDS patients in poor countries. She also argued that China’s “missing women” were not an effect of femicide or sex discrimination, but could instead be attributed to high prevalence of hepatitis B infections.
Paul Farmer’s Work Wasn’t Disciplined. That’s What Made It Great.
Life I still can’t believe my friend is gone. Paul Farmer in New York in 2017. Desiree Navarro/Getty Images Some days after the announcement of his death in Rwanda at age 62, it seems that everybody loved Paul Edward Farmer Jr., M.D., Ph.D., physician-anthropologist, and writer. I know that I did. And he loved me back. There is nothing special about either of those things, because he actively sought love and gave it as freely.
International Political Economy and the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak
Crossref Citations This article has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by CrossRef. Fairhead, James 2016. Understanding Social Resistance to the Ebola Response in the Forest Region of the Republic of Guinea: An Anthropological Perspective. African Studies Review, Vol. 59, Issue. 3, p. 7. CrossRef Google Scholar Berghs, Maria 2016. Neoliberal policy, chronic corruption and disablement: biosecurity, biosocial risks and the creation of ‘Ebola survivors’?.
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, Volume 40, Issue 2
Volume 40, Issue 2, June 2016 Special Issue: The Clinic in Crisis: Medicine and Politics in the Context of Social Upheaval ISSN: 0165-005X (Print) 1573-076X (Online) In this issue (10 articles)
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This interview with Adia Benton, an associate professor of anthropology and African studies, was conducted and condensed by frank news. Her work focuses on epidemics and government responses to them. Specifically how social inequalities that exist play out in institutional responses to health, health interventions, and humanitarian aid. frank | Most of your work focuses on West Africa - did you anticipate your work being this central to a conversation in the United States?
International Political Economy and the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak
Cited by 31 Crossref Citations This article has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by CrossRef. Flessa, Steffen and Marx, Michael 2016. Ebola fever epidemic 2014: a call for sustainable health and development policies. The European Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 17, Issue. 1, p. 1. CrossRef Google Scholar Fairhead, James 2016.
Border Promiscuity, Illicit Intimacies, and Origin Stories: Or what Contagion’s Bookends Tell us About New Infectious Diseases and a Racialized Geography of Blame | Somatosphere
The first scene of the 2011 film, Contagion, opens with a black screen and ambient airport noise. A woman coughs. As the screen fades from black to reveal a darkened airport bar, a caption in red, located at the bottom of the screen, reads “Day 2.” Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) shoves shelled peanuts into her mouth and wipes the salty residue from her hands. Her mobile phone rings. With a big grin, she holds the phone to her ear, wedding ring visible on her phone-answering hand. “Hey,” she answers.
Search results for Area Studies
The provisioning of potable water was a microcosm of the Ottoman state's incomplete projects of technopolitical modernization on the Arab frontier. Water questions sat at the intersection between international pressures surrounding cholera, drought, Wahhabi and Bedouin disorder, and the inability of the state to impose its will on the semi-autonomous Amirate of Mecca.
Race, epidemics, and the viral economy of health expertise
CHICAGO, United States “Holy Mother of God!” tweeted Eric Ding, a nutritional epidemiologist loosely affiliated with Harvard’s School of Public Health, in reference to an unpublished paper about the coronavirus’s “R0”, a malleable measure of the disease’s contagiousness. This overreaction and a misleading stream of comments by Ding set off a social media storm that died out as quickly as it was ignited. He appears to have deleted the original message but continues to comment.
Survivors
An aerial view descends into the city as floating trash blur the boundaries where water turns to housing settlements. The camera follows an ambulance through the streets of Freeport as the driver, Mohamed, provides aid to scenes of despair. Later, radio voiceovers and popular news play out in the background, providing some guiding thread for the emergent; a sort of soundtrack for the state of emergency still unfolding.
Evidence in things not yet felt
In a recent article, Alison Howell asks us to rethink militarization as a useful descriptor or analytic of contemporary politics.
Cliches Can Kill in Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently facing the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history—at least 931 people have died since August 2018. This is Congo’s 10th confrontation with the deadly virus but the first to defy all efforts to curb it. It’s not just that many of the people who have been infected have opted to stay at home rather than to seek care at treatment facilities, fearing stigmatization.
Why we should be cautious about the 'game-changer' Ebola vaccine
In early May 2018, when the ninth Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo threatened to spread to Mbandaka, a city of 1.2 million people, the global health public relations machine went into overdrive. Unlike previous outbreaks in the country, or unlike the 2014-16 West African outbreak, international responders quickly announced their support for efforts to contain Ebola.
Freetown, its landslides, and the problems of preparedness
I was in Freetown when the August 14 mudslide happened. The morning of the disaster, I went to breakfast and saw a friend who, unaware of the extent of the human toll, had received a call from a co-worker. The co-worker reported that one of their colleagues’ house had collapsed. Children had been killed.
HIV Exceptionalism Does More Harm than Good
HIV Exceptionalism Does More Harm than Good By Adia Benton March 10, 2016 Baz Ratner / Reuters In 2006, sub-Saharan Africa finally began to see effective antiretroviral therapies for HIV take hold. For years, the region had been deemed “too complex” for these life-saving drugs, with former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) head Andrew Natsios suggesting that Africans lacked the conception of Western time required to take the drugs on the prescribed schedule.
What’s the Matter Boss, We Sick?
Centuries of colonial domination have the leaders of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea more focused on not exporting Ebola than on curing it within their borders. When Thomas Eric Duncan was suffering from the Ebola disease in a Dallas hospital, Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf apologized to America and discussed punishing him if he survived.
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