Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long Second World War, 1931-1953

Marie Luce Desgrandchamps, Lecturer, University of Geneva, Senior Researcher, University of FribourgLaure Humbert, Senior Lecturer, University of ManchesterBertrand Taithe, Professor, University of ManchesterRaphaële Balu, Editorial Manager, Sorbonne University

'Good international history challenges our interpretations of the past, deepens our understanding of contemporary developments, and sets new paths for future research. For all these reasons, this landmark volume deserves a wide readership. By investigating the imperial context and multi-faceted development of humanitarianism (1931–52), it provides essential context for the debates and challenges in the contemporary humanitarian sector.'Susan Armstrong-Reid, Social History of Medicine

• Introduction: Introduction: Humanitarianism and Medical Care during the ‘Long’ Second World War, 1931-1953 - Marie Luce Desgrandchamps, Laure Humbert, Bertrand Taithe and Raphaële Balu1 Humanitarianism, Estrangement and Intimacies during the ‘long’ Second World War - New Historiographical Perspectives, Laure Humbert2. Africa, the Africans, and the Red Cross: Assessing the Impact of the Long Second World War (1935-1950), Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps3 (Un)Settling Intimacies. Boundaries of Aid in a North African Refugee Camp, 1944–1946 Esther Möller and Katharina Stornig4 “National Defense Medicine”: Chinese-style physicians and medical relief during the war against Japan Jean Corbi5 ‘There is no Enemy Here!’ Humanitarian Rhetoric in South America during the Second World War: Peru/Ecuador François Bignon6 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 7 Cultural actors in rehabilitation: WW2 craft therapy and White, ableist, heteronormative masculinity Jennifer Way8 Trauma of Warfare: Maxillofacial Surgery and Medical Relief in Wartime China, 1948 to 1956 Jinghong Zhang9 Dying on enemy ground. The ICRC and the German soldiers killed in France during WWII Taline GaribianIndex