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| Title |
More harm than good? The questionable ethics of medical volunteering and international student placements
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| Published in |
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, March 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40794-017-0048-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Irmgard Bauer |
| Abstract |
It has been argued that much of international medical volunteering is done for the wrong reasons, in that local people serve as a means to meet volunteers' needs, or for the right reasons but ignorance and ill-preparedness harm the intended beneficiaries, often without volunteers' grasp of the damage caused. The literature on ethical concerns in medical volunteering has grown tremendously over the last years highlighting the need for appropriate guidelines. These same concerns, however, and an appreciation of the reasons why current aid paradigms are flawed, can serve as indicators on how to change existing practices to ensure a better outcome for those who are in need of help. Such paradigm change envisages medical assistance in the spirit of solidarity, social justice, equality, and collegial collaboration. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 38 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 7 | 18% |
| Australia | 4 | 11% |
| United States | 3 | 8% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2 | 5% |
| South Africa | 2 | 5% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 19 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 24 | 63% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 21% |
| Scientists | 3 | 8% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 202 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 202 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 37 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 33 | 16% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 9% |
| Researcher | 12 | 6% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 12 | 6% |
| Other | 29 | 14% |
| Unknown | 60 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 62 | 31% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 18 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 15 | 7% |
| Psychology | 7 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 27 | 13% |
| Unknown | 67 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 42. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 September 2023.
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