Editors:
- The first comprehensive introduction to healthcare ethics in the context of armed conflict
- Offers guidance to health care providers who work in extremely challenging situations
- Highly relevant for medical professionals from both military and humanitarian organisations
Part of the book series: Military and Humanitarian Health Ethics (MHHE)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Doctrinal and Legal Aspects
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Front Matter
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Treating Civilians and Humanitarian Missions
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book sheds light on various ethical challenges military and humanitarian health care personnel (HCP) face while working in adverse conditions. Contexts of armed conflict, hybrid wars or other forms of violence short of war, as well as natural disasters, all have in common that ordinary circumstances can no longer be taken for granted. Hence, the provision of health care has to adapt, for example, to a different level of risk, to scarce resources, or uncommon approaches due to external incentives or requirements. This affects the practice of health care as well as its ethics. This book offers a panoramic overview on various challenges healthcare faces in extraordinary situations and provides new insights from practitioners’ as well as from academic scholars’ perspectives.
Editors and Affiliations
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Zurich Center for Military Medical Ethics, Center for Ethics, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Daniel Messelken
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Center of Reference for Education on IHL & Ethics, International Committee of Military Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
David Winkler
About the editors
Daniel Messelken is a research associate at the Center for Ethics at Zurich University and leader of the Zurich Center for Military Medical Ethics (www.cmme.uzh.ch). He also serves as Head Ethics Teacher for the Center of Reference for Education on IHL and Ethics of the International Committee of Military Medicine and is member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Military Ethics in Europe (EuroISME). Dr. Messelken studied Philosophy and Political Science in Leipzig and Paris (1998-2004) and received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Leipzig in 2010. Besides Military Medical Ethics, his main research fields include Just War Theory, the Morality of Violence, Military Ethics, and Applied Ethics more generally.
David Winkler is director of the Center of Reference for Education on International Humanitarian Law and Ethics of the International Committee of Military Medicine (www.cimm-icmm.com). He is a medical doctor specializing in neurology andholds a Ph.D. in neurobiology. Lieutenant Colonel Winkler is a staff officer in the Swiss Armed Forces Medical Services Directorate. He conducts clinical and academic work at the Cantonal Hospital Baselland, and the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Care in Contexts of Risk, Uncertainty, and Hybridity
Editors: Daniel Messelken, David Winkler
Series Title: Military and Humanitarian Health Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80443-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80442-8Published: 24 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80445-9Published: 25 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80443-5Published: 23 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-5465
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5473
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 280
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Bioethics, Military and Defence Studies, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict