On Complicity and Compromise

Zusatztext `Their [the author's] book is a pleasure to read and well worth one's time.'Eamon Aloyo, Global Governance Informationen zum Autor Chiara Lepora trained as a medical practitioner at the Universities of Pavia and Lisbon and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she has worked with MSF in various capacities across Africa and the Middle East. An interactive tutorial that she wrote underpins the e-learning software used by the World Health Organisation and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for clinical management of rape in humanitarian emergencies. After a 2008-2010 mid-career Fellowship in Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, Lepora taught Global Health Affairs at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies of the University of Denver for a year before returning to MSF. She currently works with Médecins sans Frontiéres / Doctors Without Borders as Programme Manager responsible for operations across the Middle East.Robert Goodin is a political philosopher with an appointment in the School of Philosophy at Australian National University. He is founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy, coeditor of the British Journal of Political Science and General Editor of the eleven-volume Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. A Fellow of the British Academy, he has given the Dewey Lecture at the University of Chicago Law School, the Edmund Burke Lecture at Trinity College, Dublin, and the Lee Lecture at All Souls College, Oxford. His coauthored book Discretionary Time (CUP 2008) won the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. He was Senior Research Fellow in Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health during 2009-2010. Klappentext Drawing on philosophy, law and political science, and on a wealth of practical experience delivering emergency medical services in conflict-ridden settings, Lepora and Goodin untangle the complexities surrounding compromise and complicity. Zusammenfassung Drawing on philosophy, law and political science, and on a wealth of practical experience delivering emergency medical services in conflict-ridden settings, Lepora and Goodin untangle the complexities surrounding compromise and complicity....

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• Authors: Robert E. Goodin, Robert E. (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University) Goodin, Goodin Robert E., Chiara Lepora, Chiara (Programme Manager Lepora, Chiara Goodin Lepora, Lepora Chiara
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2015
• EAN: 9780198746874
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874687-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Political science and theory, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law