Findings

Past Presentations and Information

Presentation

Presentation

Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, April 13th, 2021

Presentation Title: “Ethics of Care among Health Care Workers in Puerto Rico: Forging Compromiso amid Compounding Disasters” Presenters: GARRIGA-LÓPEZ, Adriana (Kalamazoo Coll) and MULLIGAN, Jessica (Providence Coll)

Research Article

Forum Post

Forging compromiso after the storm: activism as ethics of care among health care workers in Puerto Rico

Primary Investigators: Dr. Adriana Garriga-López & Dr. Jessica Mulligan

18 November 2020

Preliminary research for this project has documented a strong sense of purpose and community orientation shared among health care workers in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Health care workers described their compromiso, or commitment to their care-giving work; they expressed a sense of duty, solidarity, and responsibility that helped them rise to the challenge of treating the sick and injured under critical emergency conditions.

Informed by the initial findings, we adopt the term compromiso to describe the ethics of care that healthcare workers created after the hurricane. The initial findings have been published Critical Public Health, and a copy can be downloaded by clicking the thumbnail to the left.