Christmas 2016 - War

In this year's Christmas BMJ 2016 podcasts, we’ve been discussing morality, compassion, truth. In this final one, it's time for war. After the second world war, there was an attempt to bring a moral sense to conflict - and Julian Sheather, specialist adviser on ethics and human rights to the BMA, and author of the christmas editorial “medicine under fire” is worried about the retrenchment of those ideals. http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6464 Peter Wever is a doctor in The Netherlands, and has been uncovering the story of the number 10 stationary hospital, in st-omer in northern france - a British army hospital that was targeted and destroyed during the first world war. http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6509
Source: The BMJ Podcast - Category: General Medicine Authors: Source Type: podcasts