Denaturalizing "natural" disasters: Haiti's earthquake and the humanitarian impulse

Open Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 193-196

  Pinto, Andrew D ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

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