Public Health

Heroic humanitarian narrative - more harm than good?

KNKX Public Radio | By Tom Paulson

Published August 25, 2011 at 9:14 AM PDT

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The heroic narrative is almost irresistible as a storytelling strategy.

But many in the aid and development community think it frequently does more harm than good.

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Tom Paulson

The host of the Humanosphere community is Tom Paulson, who spent 22 years reporting on science and medicine at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Tom was one of the first daily news reporters to cover the topic of “global health” (a much-debated label which he discusses the merits of on the Humanosphere website).

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