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Article or Chapter

  • Redfield, Peter (2018) "On Band-Aids and Magic Bullets." in Limn 9, Little Development Devices/Humanitarian Goods , edited by Stephen J. Collier, Jamie Cross, Peter Redfield and Alice Street. → https://limn.it/on-band-aids-and-magic-bullets/

Article or Chapter

  • Redfield, Peter (2016) "Ebola and the Vulnerable Volunteer." in Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labor in Africa , edited by R. Prince and H. Brown, 222-233. Woodbridge: James Currey.
  • Redfield, Peter and Steven Robins (2016) "An Index of Waste: Humanitarian Design, ‘Dignified Living’ and the Politics of Infrastructure in Cape Town." in Anthropology of Southern Africa 39 (2): 145-162.

Article or Chapter

  • Redfield, Peter (2015) "A Measured Good." in Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice , edited by S. Abramowitz and C. Panter-Brick, 242-251. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Redfield, Peter (2015) "Fluid Technologies: The Bush Pump, the LifeStraw® and Microworlds of Humanitarian Design." in Social Studies of Science 46 (2): 159–183.

Article or Chapter

Article or Chapter

  • Redfield, Peter (2013) "Triage sans frontières." in La médecine du tri: Histoire, éthique, anthropologie , edited by G. Lachenal , C. Lefèvre, and V.K. Nguyen, 81-102. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

Book or Edited Volume

  • Redfield, Peter (2013) "Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders." Berkeley: University of California Press.

Article or Chapter

  • Redfield, Peter (2012) "Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods." in Public Culture 24 (1): 157-184.
  • Redfield, Peter (2012) "The Unbearable Lightness of Expats: Double Binds of Humanitarian Mobility." in Cultural Anthropology 27 (2): 358-382.
  • Redfield, Peter (2012) "Humanitarianism." in A Companion to Moral Anthropology , edited by D. Fassin, 451-467. Malden: Blackwell.
  • Redfield, Peter (2012) "Sleeping Sickness and the Limits of Biological Citizenship." in Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa , edited by W. Geissler, R. Rothenburg and J. Zenker, 229-249. Bielefeld: transcript.

Book or Edited Volume

  • Bornstein, Erica and Peter Redfield (2011) "Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism Between Ethics and Politics." Santa Fe: SAR Press.

Article or Chapter

  • Redfield, Peter (2010) "The Verge of Crisis: Doctors Without Borders in Uganda." in Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions , edited by D. Fassin and M. Pandolfi, 173-195. New York: Zone Books.

Article or Chapter

  • Redfield, Peter (2008) "Vital Mobility and the Humanitarian Kit." in Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question , edited by A. Lakoff and S. Collier, 147-171. New York: Columbia University Press.

Article or Chapter

  • Redfield, Peter (2006) "A Less Modest Witness: Collective Advocacy and Motivated Truth in a Medical Humanitarian Movement." in American Ethnologist 33 (1): 3-26.

Article or Chapter

  • Redfield, Peter (2005) "Foucault in the Tropics: Displacing the Panopticon." in Anthropologies of modernity: Foucault, governmentality and life politics , edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda, 50-79. Malden: Blackwell Books.
  • Redfield, Peter (2005) "Doctors, Borders and Life in Crisis." in Cultural Anthropology 20 (3): 328-361.

Article or Chapter

  • Redfield, Peter (2002) "The Half-Life of Empire in Outer Space." in Social Studies of Science 32 (6): 791-825.

Book or Edited Volume

  • Redfield, Peter (2000) "Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana." Berkeley: University of California Press.