Santé, humanitaire et politique : un hôpital itinérant de l’armée chinoise au Vanuatu
Based on an observation of a Chinese Army hospital ship in the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, this article explores new dimensions of global health as a mixture of health, humanitarianism and politics. This huge temporary infrastructure that brings together medical experts from the Chinese ar...
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| author | Sanga Stuber-Vandame |
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| description | Based on an observation of a Chinese Army hospital ship in the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, this article explores new dimensions of global health as a mixture of health, humanitarianism and politics. This huge temporary infrastructure that brings together medical experts from the Chinese army and people from Vanuatu affirms the context of post-colonial dependency on external aid. An ethnography of the situations fostered by the presence of the hospital ship helps to understand the functioning of the only public hospital of the capital Port Vila. The hospital’s multitude of projects combine international, transnational and national logics. Three aspects were retained in order to analyze the Chinese intervention: the important function of the visual aspect, the temporal dimension with the question of the long-term influence and impact, and the geopolitical perspective. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1093d35cc514dc0997c88e3d9cdfcb62024-02-14T14:40:20ZfraAssociation Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la SantéAnthropologie & Santé2111-50281610.4000/anthropologiesante.2987Santé, humanitaire et politique : un hôpital itinérant de l’armée chinoise au VanuatuSanga Stuber-VandameBased on an observation of a Chinese Army hospital ship in the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, this article explores new dimensions of global health as a mixture of health, humanitarianism and politics. This huge temporary infrastructure that brings together medical experts from the Chinese army and people from Vanuatu affirms the context of post-colonial dependency on external aid. An ethnography of the situations fostered by the presence of the hospital ship helps to understand the functioning of the only public hospital of the capital Port Vila. The hospital’s multitude of projects combine international, transnational and national logics. Three aspects were retained in order to analyze the Chinese intervention: the important function of the visual aspect, the temporal dimension with the question of the long-term influence and impact, and the geopolitical perspective.https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/2987globalizationhealthpoliticshospitalethnography |
| spellingShingle | Sanga Stuber-Vandame Santé, humanitaire et politique : un hôpital itinérant de l’armée chinoise au Vanuatu Anthropologie & Santé globalization health politics hospital ethnography |
| title | Santé, humanitaire et politique : un hôpital itinérant de l’armée chinoise au Vanuatu |
| title_full | Santé, humanitaire et politique : un hôpital itinérant de l’armée chinoise au Vanuatu |
| title_fullStr | Santé, humanitaire et politique : un hôpital itinérant de l’armée chinoise au Vanuatu |
| title_full_unstemmed | Santé, humanitaire et politique : un hôpital itinérant de l’armée chinoise au Vanuatu |
| title_short | Santé, humanitaire et politique : un hôpital itinérant de l’armée chinoise au Vanuatu |
| title_sort | sante humanitaire et politique un hopital itinerant de l armee chinoise au vanuatu |
| topic | globalization health politics hospital ethnography |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/2987 |
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