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The Program on Medical History, Ethics & Politics (MHEP) is a pioneering interdisciplinary initiative at the American University of Beirut’s Faculty of Medicine
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Health, human rights, and the Palestine exception - The Lancet
Health, human rights, and the Palestine exception - The Lancet
In December, 2025, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health announced that Mary T Bassett would be stepping down as Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights. Framed as an institutional reorientation on children's health,1 the announcement omitted that Bassett had been abruptly asked to resign2 following more than a year of political pressure over the Center's work on Palestinian health and human rights.
Trauma After Gaza - The Markaz Review
Trauma After Gaza - The Markaz Review
Joelle M. Abi-Rached reflects on the failures of psychiatry and psychiatric language in addressing the trauma arising from mass violence.
Healthocide and medical neutrality: a call for action and reflection | BMJ Global Health
Healthocide and medical neutrality: a call for action and reflection | BMJ Global Health
Six million people live in Lebanon, including 1.5 million Syrian and 500 000 Palestinian refugees. Israel has attacked Lebanon multiple times, most recently from 8 October until 27 November 2024, when a 60-day ceasefire agreement was announced. Although Israeli strikes have decreased in frequency since then, the Israeli army continues to use drones for surveillance and ‘targeted killings’ and continues to occupy select areas in the south of the country. The fall of the Assad regime in Syria on 8 December 2024, has further destabilised an already tense situation, with thousands of Syrians seeking refuge in Lebanon.1 As medical doctors and educators, we feel compelled to remind the medical community of its moral and ethical commitments, specifically its commitment to medical neutrality, a principle now at grave risk of erosion and irrelevance without concrete actions to resist these unprecedented attacks on the right to health and healthcare.
Letter from Beirut - Boston Review
Letter from Beirut - Boston Review
Macroeconomic savings from reducing mortality from non-communicable diseases in South-West Asia and North Africa
Macroeconomic savings from reducing mortality from non-communicable diseases in South-West Asia and North Africa
Social Medicine in the Arab World (Chapter 2) - Medicine on a Larger Scale
Social Medicine in the Arab World (Chapter 2) - Medicine on a Larger Scale
“Psychiatry and War” by Dr. Joelle M. Abi-Rached
“Psychiatry and War” by Dr. Joelle M. Abi-Rached
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