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ID161100
Title ProperReframing public health in wartime
Other Title Informationfrom the biomedical model to the “wounds inside”
LanguageENG
AuthorGiacaman, Rita
Summary / Abstract (Note)This article traces the research trajectory of the Institute of Community and Public Health (ICPH) at Birzeit University, whose work focuses on life and health outcomes for Palestinians living in chronic warlike conditions under Israeli settler-colonial rule. Over decades of field-based work, ICPH researchers came to the realization that medicalized responses to trauma contributed to concealing the social and political meaning that Palestinians attribute to their collective experience. By adopting an approach that linked the biological/biomedical sphere to the political sphere through the concept of suffering, and exposing the sociopolitical conditions of life and the collective trauma inducing nature of Israeli military occupation and repression, ICPH's research has allowed for the simultaneous personalization of war and politicization of health. In addition to discussing some of the health problems identified by ongoing investigations, the article also touches on the ways in which institution building and research production are linked to the capacity of Palestinians to endure and resist violation in their struggle for justice.
`In' analytical NoteJournal of Palestine Studies Vol. 47, No.2; Winter 2018: p.9-27
Journal SourceJournal of Palestine Studies 2018-03 47, 2
Key WordsInsecurity ;  Humiliation ;  Deprivation ;  Occupied Palestinian Territories ;  Suffering ;  Political Determinants Of Health ;  Self-Rated Health Measureshealth Outcomes