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When Medical Ethics and Military Ethics Collide
- Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 13, Number 3, Winter 2023
- pp. 199-204
- 10.1353/nib.2023.a924191
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Abstract:
In 12 narratives, medical workers from Afghanistan, Darfur, Gaza, Iraq, Israel, Myanmar, and Ukraine describe the day-to-day challenges of providing quality medical care in austere conflict zones. Faced with severe shortages of supplies, overwhelmed by sick and injured civilians and soldiers, and subject to constant attacks on medical personnel and facilities, the contributors to this collection confront difficult dilemmas of justice, medical impartiality, neutrality, burnout, and moral injury as they struggle to fulfill their duties as medical professionals, military officers, and conscientious citizens.