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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Rodogno

Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Near East from 1918 to 1930. Davide Rodogno shows that international 'relief' and 'development' were intertwined long before the birth of the United Nations with humanitarians operating in a region devastated by war and famine and in which state sovereignty was deficient. Influenced by colonial motivations and ideologies these humanitarians attempted to reshape entire communities and nations through reconstruction and rehabilitation programmes. The book draws on the activities of a wide range of secular and religious organisations and philanthropic foundations in the US and Europe including the American Relief Administration, the American Red Cross, the Quakers, Save the Children, the Near East Relief, the American Women's Hospitals, the League of Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.


2021 ◽  
Vol 156 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S160-S161
Author(s):  
S Sultana ◽  
R Balbuena-Marle ◽  
C Tormey ◽  
J Gollan ◽  
R Skeret

Abstract Introduction/Objective A negative Direct Antiglobulin Test (DAT) is seen in approximately 1-5% of patients presenting with signs and symptoms of immune hemolysis. A well-performed ‘standard’ DAT detects ~100-500 molecules of bound IgG per red cell. A more sensitive polybrene DAT may be helpful in order to confirm a diagnosis of AIHA in patients whose samples have tested negative via standard DAT. However, there has been little reported on utility of the polybrene DAT in evaluating such cases with modern DAT reagents. We hypothesized that the polybrene DAT would not contribute substantially to the analysis of Coombs-negative hemolytic anemia (C-NHA), based primarily on our anecdotal observation. As such, we undertook a study to assess results of polybrene DAT in cases evaluated for possible (C-NHA). Methods/Case Report Two study sites were used for data analysis (Yale-New Haven Hospital, Site A, and VA Connecticut, Site B) over a five year period (2016-2021). During this time, standard DATs were performed at both study sites by the tube method using polyspecific antiglobulin and, if positive, reflex to anti-IgG and -C3. For cases of suspected C-NHA (which are reported to Blood Bank via a consult mechanism), conventioned DAT- samples are referred to our regional immunohematology laboratory (American Red Cross, Farmington, CT) for manual hexadimethrine bromide (Polybrene) DAT. Polybrene DAT is reported as negative with two sources of polyspecific AHG. Subsets of patients also underwent acid elution studies (Gamma ELU-KITII) as part of a C-NHA algorithm developed during the study period. Results of standard DAT, acId elution, and polybrene DAT were extracted from Blood Bank electronic records at both study sites. Results (if a Case Study enter NA) Evaluation for C-NHA was performed in 32 patients/cases over the study period. Amongst these individuals, 96.8% (31/32) underwent polybrene DAT assessment and none (0%; 0/31) demonstrated a positive polybrene DAT result. Notably, acid elution studies were performed in 90.6% (29/32) of traditional DAT negative cases. Of these, 10.3% (3/29) had reactive eluates. Conclusion Performance of the polybrene DAT appeared to be of no value in the assessment of suspected C-NHA. Given that nearly 10% of individuals with a negative conventional DAT had a positive acid elution, this testing step appears to be of greater value in potentially identifying an autoantibody in suspected cases of C-NHA.


Author(s):  
Kim Girouard ◽  
Susan Lamb

Abstract Vashti Bartlett, a Johns Hopkins nurse and member of the American Red Cross Commission to Siberia, was part of a global expansion of United States (US) influence before and after World War I. Through close examination of Bartlett’s extensive personal archives and her experiences during a 1919 cholera epidemic in Harbin, North China, we show how an individual could embody a “friendly” or “capillary” form of imperialist US power. Significantly, we identify in Bartlett yet another form that US friendly power could take: scientific medicine. White, wealthy, female, and American, in the context of her international nursing activities Bartlett identified principally as a scientific practitioner trained at Johns Hopkins where she internalized a set of scientific ideals that we associate with a particular “Hopkins ethos.” Her overriding scientific identity rendered her a useful and conscientious agent of US friendship policies in China in 1919.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
V. A. Shalamov ◽  

In mid-1918, the Siberian Commission of the American Red Cross was formed, headed by an American missionary doctor who worked in Japan, Rudolf Teusler. After Admiral Kolchak came to power, the Siberian Commission concluded an agreement to expand the scope of its activities, supply volumes, and payments. The main focus was on the front, which made the Red Cross akin to a White Army supply service, which was contrary to the principles of this organization. Americans drew attention to Eastern Siberia only in the summer of 1919, when Kolchak’s army retreated, and the incidence of typhus was rapidly growing in the rear regions. Two hospitals operated by the staff of the American Red Cross were opened in Irkutsk and Verkhneudinsk; gifts were distributed periodically in the form of first-aid items. At the end of 1919, in connection with the approach of the front line to Eastern Siberia, the Americans left the region, transferring medical facilities and supplies of medicines to local authorities. In early 1920, the Siberian Commission was given the opportunity to establish contacts with the Bolshevik authorities, which controlled territories west of Lake Baikal. Members of the commission began to prepare for a new humanitarian mission that would allow for the settlement of Soviet-American relations, return to the original tasks of the Red Cross, and help thousands of needy Siberians and refugees. However, the headquarters of the American Red Cross refused to authorize this activity and by mid-1920 evacuated the remaining personnel and cargo.


2020 ◽  
pp. 471-493
Author(s):  
Биљана Вучетић

This article considers the relief work of the American Red Cross in wartime and postwar Montenegro, between 1915 and 1919. It is based on primary sources of American provenance, such as reports submitted by the American Red Cross field workers. Many U.S. sanitary officers, doctors, nurses, and social workers arrived in Serbia and Montenegro during WWI, and a great many more after the signing of the armistice. Their notes and reports, along with the official documents, represent valuable sources on the humanitarian situation in the war-torn countries in the Balkans. У раду је размотрен хуманитарни рад Америчког црвеног крста у ратном и послератном периоду у Црној Гори, између 1915. и 1919. године. Заснован је на примарним изворима америчке провенијенције, попут извештаја са терена хуманитараца Америчког црвеног крста. Бројни амерички санитетски официри, лекари, медицинске сестре и социјални радници дошли су у Србију и Црну Гору током Првог светског рата, а још већи број њих стигао је после закључења примирја. Њихове белешке и извештаји, уз званичне документе, представљају вредне изворе о хуманитарној ситуацији у ратом разореним земљама на Балкану.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyudmila V. Klimovich ◽  
Valery V. Suvorov ◽  
Leonid A. Shaipak

The Russian Red Cross Society was abolished in Soviet Russia in January 1918, but the Soviet Red Cross was created only in 1923. Part of the Russian Red Cross Society (RRCS) staff was able to emigrate and continue its activities abroad, aimed at helping and supporting Russian emigration. The article investigates the role of the RRCS in emigration; analyzes the number of people who had received assistance, including medical aid; and states, in which European countries the RRCS was most active. The chapters of the International Red Cross rendered prodigious assistance to the Russian emigration: in particular, the American Red Cross financed a sanitarium for emigrants with tuberculosis, and provided assistance to an orphanage in Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovak Red Cross, both directly and through the structures of the so-called Committee of Zemstvos and Towns for Assistance to Russian Citizens Abroad (Zemgor), participated in supporting emigration: it financed the stay of students in sanitariums and hospitals, and allocated funds for the functioning of the division of medical assistance at the Zemgor. Despite the fact that the Czechoslovak Red Cross was formed just in 1919, on account of the active actions of its chairman, Alice Masaryk (the daughter of the Czechoslovak President), it was able to attract financial resources and organize assistance to people, including Russian emigrants.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-342
Author(s):  
Eija Meriläinen ◽  
Jukka Mäkinen ◽  
Nikodemus Solitander

The influence of private actors, such as non-profit organizations (NPOs) and firms, has been increasing in disaster governance. Previous literature has interrogated the responsibilities of states towards citizens in disasters, but the roles of private actors have been insufficiently challenged. The article politicizes the entangled relations between NPOs, states, and disaster-affected people. It proposes the Rawlsian division of moral labor as a useful, normative framework for interrogating the justice of disaster governance arrangements in which ‘liberal’ states are involved. Liberal states have two types of responsibilities in disasters: humanitarian and political. The humanitarian responsibilities imply provision of basic resources needed for the capacity to make autonomous choices (domestically and abroad), while the political responsibilities imply provision of the institutions needed for the liberal democratic citizenship (domestically). Through this analytical lens and building on the wealth of existing scholarship, we illustrate the disaster governance role of the American Red Cross in the United States (a 2005 hurricane) and in Haiti (the 2010 earthquake). Where, in Rawlsian terms, United States is interpreted as a ‘liberal’ society, Haiti is framed as a ‘burdened’ society. The article proposes five points to consider in analyzing disaster governance arrangements under neoliberal regimes, structured around the division of humanitarian and political responsibilities. The article illustrates how NPOS are instrumental in blurring the boundaries between humanitarian and political responsibilities. This might result ultimately in actual vulnerabilities remaining unaddressed. While the Rawlsian approach challenges the privatization and lack of coordination in disaster governance, it is limited in analyzing the political construction of ‘burdened’ societies.


Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Pellegrino ◽  
Nathan P. Charlton ◽  
Jestin N. Carlson ◽  
Gustavo E. Flores ◽  
Craig A. Goolsby ◽  
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