Dr Ayesha Ahmad is a lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law at St George's University of London, and Honorary Lecturer at the Institute for Global Health, University College London. She specialises in gender-based violence and mental health in conflict and humanitarian crises.

James Smith is a Research Fellow with the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He has worked as a researcher with Médecins Sans Frontières's Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices (UREPH), and as a clinician with the U.K. National Health Service.

Subjects covered include volunteer tourism, gender-based violence, the effects of globalization and highly politicized aid environments.

Foreword: Humanitarian Action and Ethics - Hugo Slim

Foreword: On the Front Lines of Humanitarian Medical Ethics - Vickie Hawkins and Paul McMaster
Introduction: Narrating Humanitarian Action and Ethics - Ayesha Ahmad
1. Difficult Decision-making, Compromise, and Moral Distress in Medical Humanitarian Response - James Smith
2. Moral Entanglement and the Ethics of Closing Humanitarian Projects - Matthew Hunt and Jingru Miao
3. The Outsider's Role: Ethical Reflections from the Study of International-National Staff Relations in Development and Humanitarian Organisations - Maëlle Noé
4. The Moral Motivation of Humanitarian Actors - Katarína Komenská
5. Makeshift Humanitarians: Informal Humanitarian Aid Across European Close(d) Borders - Elisa Sandri and Fosco Bugoni
6. Amateur Humanitarianism, Social Solidarity and 'Volunteer Tourism' in the EU Refugee 'Crisis' - Jane Freedman

7. La Nouvelle France: Institutionalised Abuse, 'Exception' and Spectacle in the Exiled/Volunteer Relationship at the Franco-British Border - Celeste Cantor-Stephens
8. Ethical Challenges Among Humanitarian Organisations: Insights from the Response to the Syrian Conflict* - Kory L Funk, Diana Rayes, Leonard S Rubenstein, Nermin R Diab, Namrita S Singh, Matthew DeCamp, Wasim Maziak, Lara S Ho and W Courtland Robinson
9. Home and Away: Ethical Issues in Humanitarian Aid to Syrians in Israel - Schlomit Zuckerman, Morshid Farhat and Salman Zarka
10. The Emergence of Humanitarian Failure: The Case of Haiti - Jan Wörlein
11. Ethical Encounters as a Humanitarian Psychiatrist - Peter Hughes
12. One for All, or All for One: The Ethical Implications of Individual Human Rights-based and Public Good-based Frameworks in Emergency Mental Health - Liyam Eloul and Claire F O'Reilly
13. Ethics of Cultural Concepts and Conflicts Surrounding Disclosure of Gender-based Violence in Humanitarian Settings - Ayesha Ahmad
14. The Invisible Man: The Shrouding of Ethical Issues Related to Sexual Violence Against Men in the Humanitarian Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo - Vanessa Okito Wedi
15. Humanitarian Ethics in Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders: Discussing Dilemmas and Mitigating Moral Distress - Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, Carol Devine, John Pringle, Sidney Wong and Philippe Calain
16. Stop Missing the Point: Managing Humanitarian Action Well - Caroline Clarinval
17. An Ethic of Refusal: The Political Economy of Humanitarianism Under Neoliberal Globalisation - John Pringle and Toby Leon Moorsom
Afterword: The Ethics of Compiling a Book on Humanitarian Ethics - James Smith

*The chapter 'Ethical Challenges Among Humanitarian Organisations: Insights from the Response to the Syrian Conflict' is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). You can view the downloadable PDF here.