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Historical Context for Public Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Betcone, Brian (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

Medical anthropologist Paul Farmer’s 2020 book Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds was about the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Farmer puts the epidemic within the complex historical context of economic exploitation, ...
Visibility and Vulnerability: Deconstructing Representations of Rape in the Context of War in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Silvestri, Frankie (University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)

My work explores protracted conflict in DR Congo representationally, considering ways in which conflict is thematized in Western media around sexual violence. I use content and text mining to think through the role of ...