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Before My Helpless Sight

Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914–1918

By: Leo van Bergen

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Before My Helpless Sight

Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914–1918

By: Leo van Bergen

Despite the numerous vicious conflicts that scarred the twentieth century, the horrors of the Western Front continue to exercise a particularly strong hold on the modern imagination. The unprecedented scale and mechanization of the war changed forever the way suffering and dying were perceived and challenged notions of what the nations could reasonably expect of their military. Examining experiences of the Western Front, this book looks at the life of a soldier from the moment he marched into battle until he was buried. In five chapters - Battle, Body, Mind, Aid, Death - it describes and analyzes the physical and mental hardship of the men who fought on a front that stretched from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. Beginning with a broad description of the war it then analyzes the medical aid the Tommies, Bonhommes and Frontschweine received - or all too often did not receive - revealing how this aid was often given for military and political rather than humanitarian reasons (getting the men back to the front or munitions factory and trying to spare the state as many war-pensions as possible). It concludes with a chapter on the many ways death presented itself on or around the battlefield, and sets out in detail the problems that arise when more people are killed than can possibly be buried properly. In contrast to most books in the field this study does not focus on one single issue - such as venereal disease, plastic surgery, shell-shock or the military medical service - but takes a broad view on wounds and illnesses across both sides of the conflict. Drawing on British, French, German, Belgian and Dutch sources it shows the consequences of modern warfare on the human individuals caught up in it, and the way it influences our thinking on 'humanitarian' activities.

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Before My Helpless Sight

Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914–1918

By: Leo van Bergen

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Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality

Dealing with Leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, 1816–1942

By: Leo van Bergen

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Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality

Dealing with Leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, 1816–1942

By: Leo van Bergen

The story of leprosy in the Dutch East Indies from the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th reveals important themes in the colonial enterprise across the territory that is today’s Indonesia. Operating in a territory with only a few hundred Western-trained doctors and a population in the tens of millions, Dutch colonial officials approached leprosy with uncertainty and anxiety. In the early 19th century, the Dutch administration simply removed sufferers from public view: campaigns targetted anyone “looking ugly”. Towards the end of the century, colonial science considered leprosy a hereditary disease of tropical subjects, and therefore undeserving of the colonial government’s limited resources. The leprosariums were emptied. At the start of the 20th century, a growing understanding that leprosy was spread by a bacillus caused a panic that leprosy might spread from the tropics to the colonial metropole. The mixed emotions of pity, fear and revulsion associated with management of the disease intensified, and fed into broader debates on colonial policy. The experts were unsure, and resources were never forthcoming, and despite a view that “bacteria are the same everywhere”, Dutch leprosy treatment in the East Indies mobilized traditional healing practices and relied on home care. Leo van Bergen’s detailed, attentive study to changing policies for treatment and prevention of leprosy (now often called Hansen’s disease) is fascinating medical history, and provides a useful lens for understanding colonialism in Indonesia.

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NUS Press

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9814722839

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The Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1870–1950

On Humanitarianism and Colonialism

By: Leo van Bergen

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The Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1870–1950

On Humanitarianism and Colonialism

By: Leo van Bergen

The Dutch East Indies Red Cross (NIRK) took action in 1873 when the Aceh War broke out, which lasted several decades. In this war the organization’s neutrality was tested, but it turned out not to be an issue. Neutrality was a concept for European wars between “civilized” countries, not applicable in colonial wars. As a consequence, aid was tailored to the needs of the Dutch East Indian Army. This also showed itself in a statutory change making aid not only possible during “war”’ but also in case of “uprising.” After the war ended several decades of “peace”—if peace is a proper term in colonial circumstances—followed. They were used to be prepared in case of an attack by a foreign enemy. For this “peace-work,” societal work of the Red Cross, was deemed important. This means that it was not an aim in itself, but seen as practice for the war task. It also had to avoid the Red Cross becoming invisible and lose popularity, for only with enough (wo)men active the war task could be fulfilled. When war came, preparation turned out to have been in vain. Japan quickly conquered the archipelago. It forbade the organization only making use of some local branches when this came in handy. However, it proved not to be the end of the NIRK. When after the war independence was declared by Indonesian nationalists, the Netherlands send an army “to restore law and order.” In the war that followed, Red Cross-work became part of military carrot-and-stick strategy, trying to get the population back on Dutch side, and hoping that patients would inform the doctor with military information. The Red Cross not only had a humanitarian but a national task to fulfill.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498595774

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Dutch Newspapers on War Victims and Their LSD-treatment by Jan Bastiaans

From KZ-syndrome to PTSD

By: Leo van Bergen

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Dutch Newspapers on War Victims and Their LSD-treatment by Jan Bastiaans

From KZ-syndrome to PTSD

By: Leo van Bergen

In the 1960s, it became clear that survivors of the concentration camps had developed psychological complaints. They were diagnosed with KZ-syndrome. Dutch psychiatrist Jan Bastiaans used LSD in his psychotherapeutic sessions with KZ-syndrome sufferers, who said they greatly benefitted from his treatment. This was, despite criticism from medical professionals, enough proof for journalists, regardless of their signature, to defend the drug’s usage. Without the newspapers, LSD probably would have disappeared quickly as a medical tool. Over time, paradoxically, the cause-related diagnosis KZ-syndrome came to encompass more than just Holocaust survivors: soldiers, hostages, survivors of the Japanese camps, and the children of Dutch national socialists were all eventually included within the concept. It resulted in an enormous rise in patient numbers, and a blurring and eventual disappearance of the concept. This book explores the contribution of Dutch newspapers to the historical-cultural phenomenon of this rising focus on victims and victimhood, without which the later acceptance of PTSD – a symptom-related diagnosis – could not be understood.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527501213

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Next Generation SOA

A Concise Introduction to Service Technology & Service-orientation

By: Thomas Erl,Clive Gee,Jürgen Kress,Hajo Normann,Pethuru Raj Chelliah,Berthold Maier,Leo Shuster,Bernd Trops,Clemens Utschig-Utschig,Torsten Winterberg,Philip Wik

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Next Generation SOA

A Concise Introduction to Service Technology & Service-orientation

By: Thomas Erl,Clive Gee,Jürgen Kress,Hajo Normann,Pethuru Raj Chelliah,Berthold Maier,Leo Shuster,Bernd Trops,Clemens Utschig-Utschig,Torsten Winterberg,Philip Wik

800x600 The Concise Introduction to Modern SOA: High-Value Approaches, Innovative Technologies, Proven Use Cases After a decade of innovation in technology and practice, SOA is now a mainstream computing discipline, capable of transforming IT enterprises and optimizing business automation. In Next Generation SOA, top-selling SOA author Thomas Erl and a team of experts present a plain-English tour of SOA, service-orientation, and the key service technologies being used to build sophisticated contemporary service-oriented solutions. The starting point for today's IT professionals, this concise guide distills the increasingly growing and diverse field of service-oriented architecture and the real-world practice of building powerful service-driven systems. Accessible and jargon-free, this book intentionally avoids technical details to provide easy-to-understand, introductory coverage of the following topics: Services, service-orientation, and service-oriented computing: what they are and how they have evolved How SOA and service-orientation change businesses and transform IT culture, priorities, and technology decisions How services are defined and composed to solve a wide spectrum of business problems Deep implications of the service-orientation paradigm--illuminated through an annotation of the classic SOA Manifesto Traditional and contemporary service technologies and architectures How clouds and virtualization support the scalability and reliability of services-based solutions SOA-based industry models, from enterprise service to global trader A detailed case study: how real enterprises bring together contemporary SOA practices, models, and technologies Next Generation SOA will be indispensable to wide audiences of business decision makers and technologists--including architects, developers, managers, executives, strategists, consultants, and researchers. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4

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Pearson Education

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0133859045

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The Evaders

By: Leo Heaps

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The Evaders

By: Leo Heaps

Of the 10,000 Allied paratroopers who dropped into Holland in 1944, only 2,000 returned. Trapped in enemy territory, 250 of the toughest--the Evaders--survived for months aided by the Dutch Resistance and their own courage. Here is former Evader Leo Heaps' eyewitness account.

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0671656937

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The Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1870–1950

On Humanitarianism and Colonialism

By: Leo van Bergen

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On Humanitarianism and Colonialism

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Book's by Leo van Bergen

Before My Helpless Sight

Before My Helpless Sight

Before My Helpless Sight

Before My Helpless Sight

Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality

Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality

The Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1870–1950

The Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1870–1950

Dutch Newspapers on War Victims and Their LSD-treatment by Jan Bastiaans

Dutch Newspapers on War Victims and Their LSD-treatment by Jan Bastiaans

Next Generation SOA

Next Generation SOA

The Evaders

The Evaders

The Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1870–1950

The Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1870–1950

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