Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development Killing Me Softly? /

This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effect...

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Main Authors: Ackers, Helen Louise (Author), Ackers-Johnson, James (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2017.
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6
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