From reflexivity to collectivity: Challenging the benevolence narrative in global health
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If you have any sense of responsibility, at all, stay with your riots here at home... you will know what you are doing, why you are doing it, and how to communicate with those to whom you speak. And you will know when you fail. If you insist on working with the poor, if this is your vocation, then at least work among the poor who can tell you to go to hell... I am here to challenge you to recognize your inability, your powerlessness and your incapacity to do the “good” which you intended to do.
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