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The Language of Disasters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

S. W. A. Gunn
S. W. A. Gunn
Affiliation:
Vice President and Scientific Executive Director, European Centre for Disaster Medicine
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If the tower of Babel was a language disaster, disaster itself has a language. Whether act of God or act of man, disaster often calls for multinational assistance. The many governments, agencies, professions, and individuals from different parts of the world, representing different languages, specialties, religions, and cultures, yet all imbued with one and the same spirit of providing succor to the helpless, converge on the stricken land to help the victims, who are themselves of different language and background.

Type
Special Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , December 1990 , pp. 373 - 376
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1990

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