TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rubenstein,Leonard
TI  - Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War 
SN  - 9780231192460
U1  - 362.1 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Civilian war casualties
KW  - War
KW  - Medical aspects
KW  - Protection of civilians
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; INTRODUCTION: When the Hospital Is a Battlefield --; 1. PROTECTION OF HEALTH CARE IN WAR: A Brief History --; 2. DENYING CARE TO ENEMIES --; 3. COUNTERTERRORISM: The Devouring Monster --; 4. HEALTH CARE AS A STRATEGIC TARGET: Syria --; 5. RECKLESSNESS: The Saudi Assault on Yemen --; 6. OBSTRUCTION: The Israel– Palestine Conflict --; 7. ARMED GROUPS: Threats and Violence by Nonstate Actors --; 8. CHALLENGES IN MAKING NORMS MATTER --; CONCLUSION: Toward Humanity and Dignity --; Notes --; Index --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; restricted access
N2  - Pervasive violence against hospitals, patients, doctors, and other health workers has become a horrifically common feature of modern war. These relentless attacks destroy lives and the capacity of health systems to tend to those in need. Inaction to stop this violence undermines long-standing values and laws designed to ensure that sick and wounded people receive care.Leonard Rubenstein—a human rights lawyer who has investigated atrocities against health workers around the world—offers a gripping and powerful account of the dangers health workers face during conflict and the legal, political, and moral struggle to protect them. In a dozen case studies, he shares the stories of people who have been attacked while seeking to serve patients under dire circumstances including health workers hiding from soldiers in the forests of eastern Myanmar as they seek to serve oppressed ethnic communities, surgeons in Syria operating as their hospitals are bombed, and Afghan hospital staff attacked by the Taliban as well as government and foreign forces. Rubenstein reveals how political and military leaders evade their legal obligations to protect health care in war, punish doctors and nurses for adhering to their responsibilities to provide care to all in need, and fail to hold perpetrators to account.Bringing together extensive research, firsthand experience, and compelling personal stories, Perilous Medicine also offers a path forward, detailing the lessons the international community needs to learn to protect people already suffering in war and those on the front lines of health care in conflict-ridden places around the world
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/rube19246
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231549820
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231549820/original
ER  -