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Joshua Moses

Joshua

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Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Participants

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Where are you situated as COVID-19 plays out? What backstories shape your engagement with COVID-19? How can you be contacted? What questions and settings are you especially interested in following?

I teach anthropology and environmental studies at Haveford College, just outside of Philly. Currently, I'm holed up in a cabin in the Adirondacks in upstate New York with several family members, including my spouse and 4 year old daughter and 3 dogs. I started working on disasters by accident, when one day in 2001 I was walking to class at NYU and saw the World Trade Center buildings on flames. I have known Kim for a few year and I contacted her to connect with folks around Covid-19 and its imacts.

I'm particularly intersted in issues of communal grief, mourning, and bereavement. Also, I'm interested in the religious response to Covid-19.

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maryclare.crochiere

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The Narrative Representation of illness

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

I looked up Turkish marriage traditions, EMS systems, and the languages spoken.

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maryclare.crochiere

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The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

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Can you learn anything from the article or report’s bibliography that tells us something about how the article or report was produced?

Many of the citations are from the MSF compilation, but others are clearly other studies or research articles. They are all from the past 20 years or so, since humanitarian and womens' sexual rights gained popularity and momentum around that time.

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maryclare.crochiere

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5 Years After Haiti's Earthquake, Where Did The $13.5 Billion Go?

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What actors (individuals or organizations) are referred to? (Provide names and short descriptions)

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti - Boston nonprofit - human rights

NPR - National Public Radio - news source

President Michel Martelly - Haitian president

Nepalese soldiers - from the UN - brought Cholera

United Nations

SecretaryGeneral Ban Kimoon - UN

Haitian Ministries of Health and Environment

Center for Economic Policy and Research - Washington

U.S. District Court Judge J. Paul Oetken

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maryclare.crochiere

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The Waiting Room

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What could have been added to this film to enhance its educational value?

More one-on-one interviews with the healthcare workers - finding out how they deal with situations, what situations are too common, why policies are the way they are, and what changes would make sense - finacially, health-wise, wait-time-wise, etc.

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maryclare.crochiere

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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

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How (if at all) is emergency response addressed in the article or report?

This article is more based on the response to disease spread, rather than response to a single emergency event.

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maryclare.crochiere

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The Problem of Securing Health

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How (if at all) is emergency response addressed in the article or report?

Emergency response is briefly mentioned as something to consider in risk vs security in situations. The safety of emergency responders is important, but making every person take measures to prevent every disease may not be practical. The importance of vaccinating emergency responders was also mentioned.

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maryclare.crochiere

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Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11

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What kinds of action and points of intervention are suggested by the film? If the film itself does not suggest corrective action, describe actions that you can imagine being effective.

The government should not edit the EPA's notices and warnings.

There should be far more safety information given to first responders and people living/working in a dangerous area. If they are not actively saving lives, they should not be risking their own lives - like in the rubble cleanup for 9/11.