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Item Open Access Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh(Medical Humanities) Tupetz, Anna; Quirici, Marion; Sultana, Mohsina; Hoque, Kazi Imdadul; Stewart, Kearsley Alison; Landry, MichelThis article puts critical disability studies and global health into conversation around the phenomenon of scarf injury in Bangladesh. Scarf injury occurs when a woman wearing a long, traditional scarf called an orna rides in a recently introduced autorickshaw with a design flaw that allows the orna to become entangled in the vehicle’s driveshaft. Caught in the engine, the orna pulls the woman’s neck into hyperextension, causing a debilitating high cervical spinal cord injury and quadriplegia. The circumstances of the scarf injury reveal the need for more critical cultural analysis than the fields of global health and rehabilitation typically offer. First, the fatal design flaw of the vehicle reflects different norms of gender and dress in China, where the vehicle is manufactured, versus Bangladesh, where the vehicle is purchased at a low price and assembled on-site—a situation that calls transnational capitalist modes of production and exchange into question. Second, the experiences of women with scarf injuries entail many challenges beyond the injury itself: the transition to life with disability following the rehabilitation period is made more difficult by negative perceptions of disability, lack of resources and accessible infrastructure, and cultural norms of gender and class in Bangladesh. Our cross-disciplinary conversation about women with scarf injuries, involving critical disability studies, global health and rehabilitation experts, exposes the shortcomings of each of these fields but also illustrates the urgent need for deeper and more purposeful collaborations. We, therefore, argue that the developing subfield of global health humanities should include purposeful integration of a humanities-based critical disability studies methodology.Item Open Access The divergent paths of post-quake Nepal and Haiti – The Hierarchical System for Emergency Mitigation as a determinant for emergency humanitarian aid coordination(2018-03-26) Keefe, CarolineNatural disasters have always been extremely disruptive events, destroying thousands of lives and homes without warning, killing hundreds, and threatening to plunge into disarray entire societies unprepared to deal with the disaster. Since the early 2000s, scholars have been creating several models that have been determined to be appropriate systems of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters, particularly natural disasters. One of the most well-known models is the Hierarchical System for Emergency Mitigation, or the HSEM model. It is considered one of the most adaptable and logical models for disaster management. Using the HSEM model, this paper will compare the preparation for, response to, and recovery from the earthquake in Haiti of 2010 with the earthquake in Nepal of 2015, focusing on the efforts of the Red Cross and USAID.