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Throughout human history, disease has constituted a state of life in which the need for help by some has readily been adopted as an obligation to care by others, most importantly relatives and medical specialists of any kind. Given that even in wartimes injured combatants are often provided medical assistance by enemy forces, help for the diseased can be construed as a paradigmatic case from which notions of help and the entitlement to it emerge. This also highlights how the practice of help flows from ethical considerations and ideas of compassion entailed in them.
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Burchardt, M. (2013). Access to the Social: The Ethics and Pragmatics of HIV/AIDS Support Groups in South Africa. In: Schlecker, M., Fleischer, F. (eds) Ethnographies of Social Support. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137330970_4
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