van Bergen Leo
VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Med Confl Surviv. 2010 Oct-Dec;26(4):298-313. doi: 10.1080/13623699.2010.535280.
The paper looks at two First World War ambulance teams which distinctly differed from each other, both in the way they perceived the war and the places at the front where they worked. The first was working on the Serbian side and the second on the Austrian-Hungarian. The questions raised are: how was medical neutrality defined (was it defined at all)? Was neutrality maintained, and if so how? The writings of several protagonists are closely examined, and placed in context, to show that total neutrality was not adhered to by the physicians and nurses of these ambulances. Apparently neutrality in wartime is difficult, even for men and women coming from a neutral country with an occupation seen as essentially neutral.
该论文研究了两支第一次世界大战时期的救护车队，它们在对战争的认知以及工作的前线地点方面都截然不同。第一支车队在塞尔维亚一方工作，第二支在奥匈帝国一方。提出的问题是：医疗中立是如何定义的（是否有明确定义）？中立是否得以维持，如果是，又是如何维持的？对几位主要人物的著作进行了仔细研究并置于相应背景中，以表明这些救护车队的医生和护士并未坚持完全中立。显然，战时保持中立很困难，即使对于来自中立国家、从事本质上被视为中立职业的男女来说也是如此。
