Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières is among the most emblematic nongovernmental organizations in the field of medical humanitarian assistance. Since its creation in 1971 in the wake of the Biafran War, MSF has grown to be admired for its outstanding boldness and often disliked for its fierce arrogance. Although best known publicly as a large organization that operates in the world’s most ravaged places and that is supported by millions of individual donors, internal staff and field workers typically identify with (...) MSF more as an association of individual members than as an international organization. Renee C. Fox’s 2014 book, Doctors Without Borders:... (shrink)