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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 | |