This book offers a micro-global history of humanitarianism and medical care during the ‘long’ Second World War, which challenges the traditional and Eurocentric chronological boundaries of 1939/1945. It takes as its starting point the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, which led to the progressive dislocation of the League of Nations, with the Japanese, German and Soviet departures in the 1930s. It ends with the termination of the Korean War in 1953, and the subsequent dismantlement of the first United Coalition and UN Peace enforcement operation. It considers the slow, messy and ambivalent transformation of humanitarian actors’ relations to the suffering of distant others through a study of humanitarian encounters, practices, spaces and affects. Paying close attention to a variety of actors, such as French colonial doctors, Swiss ICRC delegates, Egyptian relief workers, Chinese-style physicians, Peruvian and Ecuadorian nurses or American member of the Unitarian Service Committee, the book provides a more holistic story of humanitarianism. -- .
Introduction: Humanitarianism and Medical Care during the ‘Long’ Second World War, 1931-1953
Marie Luce Desgrandchamps, Laure Humbert, Bertrand Taithe and Raphaële Balu
1 Humanitarianism, Estrangement and Intimacies during the ‘long’ Second World War: New Historiographical Perspectives
Laure Humbert
2 Colonial Medicine and ‘Black Strength’ in the French colonies of Africa during the ‘long’ Second World War
Delphine Peiretti-Courtis
3 Africa, the Africans, and the Red Cross: Assessing the Impact of the Long Second World War (1935-1950)
Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps
4 (Un)Settling Intimacies: Boundaries of Aid in a North African Refugee Camp, 1944–1946
Esther Möller and Katharina Stornigi
5 “National Defense Medicine”: Chinese-style physicians and medical relief during the war against Japan
Jean Corbi
6 ‘There is no Enemy Here!’ Humanitarian Rhetoric in South America during the Second World War: Peru/Ecuador
François Bignon
7 Unitarian Service Committee’s activities with refugee populations and the Resistance in France during and after the Second World War
Jon Arrizabalaga and Àlvar Martínez-Vidal
8 Cultural actors in rehabilitation: WW2 craft therapy and White, ableist, heteronormative masculinity
Jennifer Way
9 Trauma of Warfare: Maxillofacial Surgery and Medical Relief in Wartime China, 1948 to 1956
Jinghong Zhang
10 Dying on enemy ground. The ICRC and the German soldiers killed in France during WWII
Taline Garibian -- .
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