What is the relationship of medical humanitarian organisations with mining and other extractive industries?
expert_opinion · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 22952440.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001302 and PMC identifier 3429375.
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Abstract
Philippe Calain discusses the health and environmental hazards of extractive industries like mining and explores the tensions that arise when medical humanitarian organizations are called to intervene in emergencies involving the extractive sector.
Medical subject headings
- Altruism
- Mining
- Organizations
- Petroleum
- Societies, Medical