The Resource The world's emergency room : the growing threat to doctors, nurses, and humanitarian workers, Michael VanRooyen
The world's emergency room : the growing threat to doctors, nurses, and humanitarian workers, Michael VanRooyen
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- Summary
- Twenty years ago, the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today, it is violent attacks. And the death of each doctor, nurse, paramedic, midwife, and vaccinator is multiplied untold times in the vulnerable populations deprived of their care. In a 2005 report, the ICRC found that for every soldier killed in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 60 civilians died due to loss of immunizations and other basic health services. The World's Emergency Room: The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers documents this dangerous trend, demonstrates the urgent need to reverse it, and explores how that can be accomplished. Drawing on VanRooyen's personal experiences and those of his colleagues in international humanitarian medicine, he takes readers into clinics, wards, and field hospitals around the world where medical personnel work with inadequate resources under dangerous conditions to care for civilians imperiled by conflict. VanRooyen undergirds these compelling stories with data and historical context, emphasizing how they imperil the key doctrine of medical neutrality, and what to do about it. --Publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xi, 210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- Discovering humanitarianism
- First steps
- Career humanitarian
- Growing challenges
- In the field
- Finding humanitarian space
- A new era of challenges
- Protecting humanitarian medicine
- Designing the future of humanitarian medicine
- Isbn
- 9781250072122
- Label
- The world's emergency room : the growing threat to doctors, nurses, and humanitarian workers
- Title
- The world's emergency room
- Title remainder
- the growing threat to doctors, nurses, and humanitarian workers
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael VanRooyen
- Subject
-
- Emergency Service, Hospital
- Emergency medical personnel
- Emergency physicians
- Hospitals -- Emergency services | Security measures
- Medical emergencies
- Medical personnel -- Violence against
- Medicine, Military
- Emergencies
- Security Measures
- Violence -- prevention & control
- Violence in hospitals -- Prevention
- Vulnerable Populations
- War -- Medical aspects
- War -- Relief of sick and wounded
- Relief Work
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Twenty years ago, the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today, it is violent attacks. And the death of each doctor, nurse, paramedic, midwife, and vaccinator is multiplied untold times in the vulnerable populations deprived of their care. In a 2005 report, the ICRC found that for every soldier killed in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 60 civilians died due to loss of immunizations and other basic health services. The World's Emergency Room: The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers documents this dangerous trend, demonstrates the urgent need to reverse it, and explores how that can be accomplished. Drawing on VanRooyen's personal experiences and those of his colleagues in international humanitarian medicine, he takes readers into clinics, wards, and field hospitals around the world where medical personnel work with inadequate resources under dangerous conditions to care for civilians imperiled by conflict. VanRooyen undergirds these compelling stories with data and historical context, emphasizing how they imperil the key doctrine of medical neutrality, and what to do about it. --Publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- VanRooyen, Michael J
- Dewey number
- 362.18
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RA975.5.E5
- LC item number
- V36 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- NLM call number
-
- 2016 F-790
- WX 215
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Hospitals
- Medical personnel
- Medical emergencies
- Emergency physicians
- Emergency medical personnel
- Violence in hospitals
- War
- War
- Medicine, Military
- Emergency Service, Hospital
- Security Measures
- Emergencies
- Violence
- Relief Work
- Vulnerable Populations
- Label
- The world's emergency room : the growing threat to doctors, nurses, and humanitarian workers, Michael VanRooyen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Discovering humanitarianism -- First steps -- Career humanitarian -- Growing challenges -- In the field -- Finding humanitarian space -- A new era of challenges -- Protecting humanitarian medicine -- Designing the future of humanitarian medicine
- Control code
- ocn933729129
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xi, 210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781250072122
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015045264
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o933729129
- (OCoLC)933729129
- Label
- The world's emergency room : the growing threat to doctors, nurses, and humanitarian workers, Michael VanRooyen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Discovering humanitarianism -- First steps -- Career humanitarian -- Growing challenges -- In the field -- Finding humanitarian space -- A new era of challenges -- Protecting humanitarian medicine -- Designing the future of humanitarian medicine
- Control code
- ocn933729129
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xi, 210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781250072122
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015045264
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o933729129
- (OCoLC)933729129
Subject
- Emergency Service, Hospital
- Emergency medical personnel
- Emergency physicians
- Hospitals -- Emergency services | Security measures
- Medical emergencies
- Medical personnel -- Violence against
- Medicine, Military
- Emergencies
- Security Measures
- Violence -- prevention & control
- Violence in hospitals -- Prevention
- Vulnerable Populations
- War -- Medical aspects
- War -- Relief of sick and wounded
- Relief Work
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