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erin_tuttle
  • “incorporating gender-based violence both reveals and furthers the undoing of humanitarianism as we know it, both in its attempts to keep the political on the outside, and in the popular belief that humanitarianism can do the work of politics without its messiness – it is a symptom of its end, or perhaps in a more positive sense, it opens up a space to re-imagine both the humanitarian and the political.”
  • “It seems that humanitarianism, as universalism, both erases and depends on difference; on the one hand, it manages difference, declawing it so that it doesn’t tear apart the humanitarian kit, made to fit and rehabilitate everyone into a basic bare-bones humanity.”
  • “gender-based violence makes it clear that the suffering body – while purportedly universal – requires certain political, historical and cultural attributes to render it visible and worthy of care.”

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Andreas_Rebmann

The main point of the article is to explain the history of the vignette or anecdotes in clinical research as an accompaniment to data and analysis, particularly in the realm of psychological medicine. The author makes a case for the importance of the clinical vignette, explaining how it can assist physicians in diagnosing and treating patients.