BACKGROUND This paper describes a Bosnian refugee, a survivor of war and ethnic cleansing, during a 3-year follow-up in a psychiatry clinic. DISCUSSION This case throws light on the tension between medicotherapeutic and sociomoral ways of understanding the effects of such experiences, and of the limitations of morally and politically neutral psychiatric categories and technologies. Suffering ...

Foster Parents' Plan (FPP) was established in 1937 to support child victims of the Spanish Civil War. The initial idea came from an English war correspondent who wanted create "personal ties" between refugee and orphaned children their benefactors, thus creating one very first "child sponsorship" experiments. "adoptive parents" financially supported maintained contact with them throughout lette...

In recent years German media coverage of the Middle East conflict has been accused of an anti-Israeli bias that reinforces old, widely held prejudices and stereotypes about Jews and supports the common accusation that Israel misuses the tragedy of the Holocaust to justify anti-Palestinian policies. In particular, there is the accusation that during and after the Gaza War the media portrayed Isr...

psychological breakdowns reached almost epidemic proportions. In north-west Europe, where Canadian troops were continually engaged in combat, army psychiatrists had improved upon forward psychiatric treatment developed in Italy, and most cases of battle exhaustion were returned relatively quickly to the front. In comparison with medicine and surgery the advances made in psychiatry during the Se...

Introduction: Chemical weapons , which their history dates back to the first world war , refer to any factor that has direct toxic effects on human being , animals and plants. Iraqi regime used chemical weapons and various poisons during the imposed war against Iran of which mustard and nervous gases are examples that their effects are seen in victims even after passing many years. Materials a...

The article examines the de-Stalinization of war veterans’ organizations in Czechoslovakia. Building on testimonies and journalistic works concerning victims Stalinist purges persecution attempts to rehabilitate them, author elaborates her argument with case study prominent victims’ organization “Association Antifascist Fighters”. During Stalinism, all veterans who had not fought side by Soviet...

Abstract In my contribution to this forum, I want focus on the silencing of human shields within prevailing frames war/law. Focusing destruction al-Jalaa tower by Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), argue that Human Shields: A History People in Line Fire enables us see how figure shield was invoked legitimize violence whilst denying victims a voice debates about harm inflicted upon them. Although boo...

In this paper I seek common ground between the memoirs of Péter Nádas, a prominent figure in contemporary Hungarian literature, and certain writings Miklós Mészöly, an important author twentieth-century prose. show that both authors disrupt classical chronology narrative. The temporal structure Nádas’s memoir is determined by attempt to identify narrator’s first memory, whereas Mészöly’s works ...