Re: [huml] relevant article

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks, James,

This is very timely. I am copying the Emergency Management list with 
this. It serves as a reminder of how maintaining a wide range of 
collaborative opportunities can bring up important points 
(liability-below), and new application areas (incorporating cultural 
considerations into global scope Emergency Management and Medical 
Preparedness).

I look forward to exploring this further.

Ciao,
Rex


At 7:54 AM -0500 10/22/03, James Landrum wrote:
>Am sending this to the group, as it came across my desk via the 
>ASAONET (Association of Social Anthropologists in Oceania) list 
>serv, and in my opinion the article below has strong relevance for 
>Human Markup.  National Geographic's new TV series, "Worlds Apart," 
>is a "reality show" that focuses on culture exchange between 
>families in different countries, i.e., they send American families 
>to various remote locations around the globe for 9 days and set them 
>up as "neighbors" of indigenous families. The families get a short 
>but intense experience (immersion) of other peoples life ways. The 
>article posted on National Geographic web site covers cross-cultural 
>exchange, and has also discussion of clean water, health issues, and 
>emergency medical preparedness (what I would normally refer to as a 
>Health and Safety Plan, designed cover potential medical 
>emergencies, and just as importantly from a corporate perspective, 
>to defray risk of getting sued by family members who get sick or 
>injured while participating in this program.
>Point being here that this is a good example of potential for Human 
>Markup (in conjunction with EM (Emergency Management, to be applied 
>in corporate environments, and in the entertainment (e.g., 
>television and film) industry, as well as in institutional research 
>environments, both in the field and in the lab.
>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0610_030610_worldsapart.html
>
>Glenda Hersh is the producer. She also produced "Doctors Without
>Borders," a documentary series on National Geographic and various other
>documentaries about travel and medicine. (Web searches)
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