This article is part of the following series: The Hospital Multiple
‘If you are bleeding a lot…go to hospital’. Cristiano, a community health volunteer gave a health seminar to 12 community members inside a dark concrete house, in a village outside a small town in Timor-Leste’s central mountains. Cristiano explained some of the danger signals to watch out for during pregnancy. ‘Go to hospital’, Cristiano repeated, as he described each symptom …
This article is part of the following series: The Two Singapores: Migrant Labor Precarity in Covid-19
“The Two Singapores” is an ongoing interview miniseries run by Somatosphere to interrogate Singapore’s COVID-19 response, in particular in its handling of the explosion of cases among migrant workers living in cramped dormitories. The series aims to shed a light on Singapore’s reliance on cheap migrant labor in maintaining its image as a glitzy, cosmopolitan city-state, and aims to offer …
Epidemics are closely related to population mobility. But the COVID-19 outbreak is special in that population mobility in China 2020 is not only unprecedentedly prevalent and frequent, but has also become a basis of the global economy and many people’s livelihood. The circulation of goods and the movement of people are arguably more important than the assembly lines in factories …
Life in crisis: The ethical journey of doctors without borders
University of California Press, 2013. 338 pages.
“Should we only get involved in beautiful, sexy emergencies or also in hopeless places? Our work is to keep trying amid pessimism” (p. 241). These are the words of a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) doctor alluding to what Peter …