Perilous Medicine presents a well-documented series of case studies on such tragic attacks. Rubenstein takes a deep dive in answering why violence against health care seems to be more visible. Providing health care in combat zones often means delivering such care in the face of looting, fires, shelling, bombing, and plague. McGovern (D-MA), co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission As leaders and citizens, we have a duty to ensure they do. Governments, including the United States, have the power to protect health care from violence. He offers insights and ideas we desperately need to shake off complacency and insist on compliance with the norms and principles of the Geneva Conventions.
WAR HOSPITAL BOOK DRIVERS
Rubenstein provides a comprehensive account of the drivers of the growing number of attacks on health care during armed conflict. Bravo, Professor Rubenstein, for speaking truth, however inconvenient it may be for world leaders Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and author of Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health 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.įew people have worked as tirelessly to protect doctors, nurses, and other health workers on the front lines of catastrophes and conflicts as has Leonard Rubenstein, and in this much-needed, eagerly awaited book, he brilliantly details how ruthless leaders, militaries, and terrorists deliberately target hospitals, patients, and their health workers for destruction, kidnapping, and murder. 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. 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. 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. Inaction to stop this violence undermines long-standing values and laws designed to ensure that sick and wounded people receive care. These relentless attacks destroy lives and the capacity of health systems to tend to those in need. Pervasive violence against hospitals, patients, doctors, and other health workers has become a horrifically common feature of modern war.
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