Table of Contents
Nèg Mawon Joia S. Mukherjee ix
Writing About Suffering 1
1 The Catastrophe 6
2 Praxis and Policy: The Years before the Quake 22
3 January 12 and the Aftermath 54
4 A History of the Present Illness 121
5 Into the Camps 140
6 From Relief to Reconstruction (Building Back Better?) 149
7 Reconstruction in the Time of Cholera 188
8 Looking Forward While Looking Back: Lessons from Rwanda 236
Epilogue: January 12, 2011 236
Afterword: March 31, 2012 246
Other Voices
Art, by Catherine Bertrand Farmer 260
Women
Lòt Bò Dlo: The Other Side of the Water Edwidge Danticat 261
Sim Pa Rele (If I Don't Shout), by Michèle Montas-Dominique 271
Goudou Goudou Nancy Dorsinville 285
Mothers and Daughters of Haiti Didi Bertrand Farmer 295
Doctors
Humanitarian Aid, Impartiality, and Dirty Boots Louise Ivers 308
Lopital Jeneral Struggles to Survive Evan Lyon 319
Doctors in Tents Dubique Kobel 328
Those Who Survived Naomi Rosenberg 332
Humanitarians
First We Need Taxis Timothy T. Schwartz 342
The Official Jennie Weiss Block, O. P. 356
Building Back Better Jehane Sedky 363
Notes 373
Acronyms and Initiahsms 409
Contributors 411
Acknowledgments 415
Index 419
Photo insert between pages 216-217