What Is the Relationship of Medical Humanitarian Organisations with Mining and Other Extractive Industries?

Philippe Calain

PLOS Medicine, 2012, vol. 9, issue 8, 1-4

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.

Date: 2012
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