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List of Figures | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Terms of Engagement | |
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A Time of Crisis | |
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The Nobel Dream | |
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Life in Crisis | |
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Minimal Biopolitics | |
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A View from the Land Cruiser | |
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An Expansive Horizon | |
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A Real Doctor | |
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The Allure of Simplicity | |
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The Problem of Critique | |
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A Secular Value of Life | |
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December 1971 | |
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"A Being Not Meant to Suffer," | |
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The Secular Sense of Disaster | |
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Battlefield Passion, Medical Mission | |
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Discovering a Third World | |
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The Call of Biafra, the Allure of a Name | |
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Jacobins without the Guillotine | |
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Schisms and Expansions | |
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Secular Humanitarianism and Sacred Life | |
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Global Ambitions | |
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Vital Mobility | |
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The "Punch," | |
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Globalization on the Ground | |
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Precursors and Prototypes | |
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The Need for an Apparatus | |
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The Global Kit | |
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Variation, Adjustment, and Limits | |
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Mobile Medicine | |
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Following the Money | |
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The Price of Independence | |
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- Moral Witness | |
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Witnessing Disaster | |
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Discovering T�moignage | |
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Refinements and Contestations | |
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Plural Practice | |
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An Appeal of Words, a Power of Numbers | |
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The Problem of Neutrality | |
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Specific Knowledge, Collective Speech | |
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Human Frontiers | |
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A Tale of Two Borders | |
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Relative Motion | |
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"In My Former Life I Was an Unshaven, Cigarette-Smoking Frenchman," | |
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Vie Gravity of Local Attachment | |
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The Unbearable Lightness of Expats | |
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Discovering Gender and Age | |
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La Mancha and Problems of "Decolonization," | |
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Double Binds of Mobility | |
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Testing Limits | |
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The Problem of Triage | |
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Death amid Life | |
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Security and "Humanitarian Space," | |
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A Refusal of Sacrifice | |
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Triage and the Imperative to Choose | |
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The Ordinary Pathos of Closure | |
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The Longue Dur�e of Disease | |
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A Human Question | |
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Crisis beyond Emergencies | |
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A Study in Sleeping Sickness | |
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AIDS: Tradition before Treatment | |
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ARVs and "Other Questions of Living," | |
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Caring for Life | |
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The Moral Economy of Access | |
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The Verge of Crisis | |
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Amin's Death | |
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The Relative Poverty of "Africa Lite," | |
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Finding History in Place | |
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MSF in Uganda | |
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A Belated Emergency | |
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The Psychosocial Horizon | |
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Uncertainty in Uganda | |
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Action beyond Optimism | |
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The Rhetoric of Action | |
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A Contemporary Candide | |
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Life beyond Planning | |
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The Pathos of Minimalism and Residual Hope | |
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Action, Care, and Discontent | |
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Epilogue | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Index | |