Exadaktylos Aristomenis, Zimmermann Heinz
Notfallzentrum Inselspital, Bern.
Ther Umsch. 2008 Jan;65(1):5-11. doi: 10.1024/0040-5930.65.1.5.
When we were asked to write an article on the history of catastrophes and our perception of it, we quickly got up to a point were we understood that such a theme could easily be handled in form of an entire book. Because this is virtually impossible and because we physicians are only "guests" in the fields of meteorology, seismology and political sciences, this paper reflects more our personal view and experiences of this very complex topic. But like Heraklit who said: "Ta Panta rhei."--"everything flows" and who argued that the world is a permanent becoming and vanishing, in which everything constantly changes, we argue that not only the world changes but also our perception of catastrophic events. Only the future will tell how bad the today and the past has been.
当我们被要求撰写一篇关于灾难史以及我们对其认知的文章时，我们很快就意识到，这样一个主题完全可以写成一整本书。由于这几乎不可能做到，而且因为我们医生在气象学、地震学和政治学领域只是“门外汉”，所以本文更多地反映了我们对这个非常复杂主题的个人观点和经历。但正如赫拉克利特所说：“一切皆流。”——他认为世界是一个永恒的生成与消逝的过程，其中一切都在不断变化，我们也认为不仅世界在变化，而且我们对灾难性事件的认知也在变化。只有未来才能告诉我们今天和过去有多糟糕。
