Leo Van Bergen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4428704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leo Van Bergen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Bergen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN BERGEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-2941-2647 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Questioning the relevance of medical preparation for war. The Dutch example 1939–1940
‘If you want peace, prepare for war’. With this proverb in mind, there has already been a lot of preparation for thousands of years. Although it didn’t prevent wars from happening over and over aga
Young carers in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review of current research and future directions
This scoping review consolidates research on young carers in sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting cultural, social and economic factors shaping their experiences. It includes 18 studies from nine African countries exploring caregiving responsibilities and impacts on young carers. Young caregiving in Africa is deeply intertwined with cultural norms that view childhood as a time of duty and service, in contrast to the Western ideal of a carefree childh…
Young adult carers in Flanders: Comparing Mental Health Vulnerability Across Age Groups
This article utilizes large-scale quantitative data from Flanders (Belgium) to examine the mental health vulnerability of young adult carers compared to carers of different ages. We analyse a sample of 7,265 respondents using regression techniques to explore the associations between care burden and mental health. The analysis reveals that mental health vulnerability peaks between ages 18 and 25, particularly for those carrying higher care burdens…
Medical disasters or disastrous medicine? Dutch medical care in the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia (1870–1949) – three examples
The author argues that medical care in the Dutch East Indies, should be re-evaluated from successful to disastrous. The author first defines a medical disaster as one in which medical care has fallen short due to its own shortcomings- or even intentionally. This contrasts with a disaster for humankind, in which also many are to be regretted, but for which healthcare is not to blame, because of, for instance, a lack of resources, manpower or knowl…
The Voices of Minor Children of Parents With a Mental Illness or Addiction: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis
This qualitative evidence synthesis aims to show how the agency and voices of minor children of parents with a mental illness (COPMI) or with an addiction (COPA) are represented in existing qualitative research. A thematic analysis was conducted to analyse the parts of the articles reporting on the voices of COPMI/COPA themselves (e.g., through interviews with them). Special attention was given to how the authors of the different articles represe…
Until better times – from Leo van Bergen stepping down as co-editor
Conflict prevention as part of disaster preparedness: Joining the dots
Not learning the lessons of history: Clinging to power and domination in the nuclear age
On 27th of July, as this issue was being finalized, there was limited media coverage of the 70th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. While recognizing that the Armistice Agreement had prevente
Conflict, climate change and the need for safe spaces: The interlocking problems that urgently need joined up solutions
No global health without peace: From Afghanistan to Ukraine violence casts long shadows in the 21st century
A new type of solar cell shows promise not only for generating electricity but also for producing chemicals. The device, being developed by the authors depends on a process reminiscent of natural photosynthesis. They note that solid-state solar cells are expensive because they require highly purified single crystals. A less expensive alternative is to use semiconducting polycrystallites in photoelectrochemical cells (PEC). A conventional PEC cons…
COP27 and the military–industrial complex: No more sidestepping the military emissions gap
Nuclear weapons and vaccines: Can the 21st century do better than its first two years
The war in Ukraine: Part of a fragile jigsaw
The trust deficit: Pandemic, disarmament, climate change and the securitization of health
Climate change, health and armed conflict: The links that still need making
Dr Bernard Lown: An inspiration for international cooperation and the social responsibility to prevent war
Not long before the completion of the first issue of 2021 we received the message that Bernard Lown had died. Of course, this is a shock and great loss, despite the fact that he had almost reached
January 22nd 2021: Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force
The prospect of the coming into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on 22 January 2021 inspired us to look back at articles on nuclear weapons that have appeared in thi
The long-term health consequences of enduring armed conflict and a lost pandemic opportunity
Dutch nurses and the Great War: On caregiving and gender
In 1910 female nurses were allowed to work in Dutch military hospitals. However, it proved difficult to find them. The blame was partly directed at nurses themselves: they didn’t have the right background and didn’t fit into military, male discipline. The nurses themselves blamed the Dutch Red Cross who had failed in its mobilizing task. The typical Dutch situation – neutrality resulting in a lack of urgency to create a strong military nursing co…
Special issue: ‘Feminist perspectives on the history of humanitarian relief (1870-1945)’
International security: What nuclear weapon states have not learnt in 75 years
As this issue of Medicine Conflict & Survival was completed commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shared airtime with COVID-19 and the devastating
A time for solidarity, not isolation
As this issue of Medicine Conflict & Survival is completed the world is dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with advances in the understanding of the epidemiology, clinical presentation and treatme
Ten years since the founding of the Holdstock-Piachaud student essay prize
2020 marks 10 years since the founding of the Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize. Douglas Holdstock (editor 1992–2007) and Jack Piachaud (editor 2005–2009) were influential and inspiring editor
Mart van Lieburg, Erasmus MC. Vijf eeuwen geneeskunde en gezondheidszorg in Rotterdam 1465-1965
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Las Mamas Belgas. De onbekende strijd van jonge vrouwen uit België en Nederland tegen Franco en Hitler, (Las Mamas Belgas. The unknown battle of young women against Franco and Hitler)
"Las Mamas Belgas. De onbekende strijd van jonge vrouwen uit België en Nederland tegen Franco en Hitler, (Las Mamas Belgas. The unknown battle of young women against Franco and Hitler)." Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 35(2), pp. 187–196
Leprosy and the Colonial Gaze: Comparing the Dutch West and East Indies, 1750–1950
This article is looking at colonial governance with regard to leprosy, comparing two settings of the Dutch colonial empire: Suriname and the Dutch East Indies. Whereas segregation became formal policy in Suriname, leprosy sufferers were hardly ever segregated in the Dutch East Indies. We argue that the perceived needs to maintain a healthy labour force and to prevent contamination of white populations were the driving forces behind the difference…
The value of war for medicine: Questions and considerations concerning an often endorsed proposition
This paper examines the relationship, often claimed as beneficial, between war and advances in medicine and surgery. Some of the conflicting opinions that have been expressed are discussed. Military medicine in general is conservative and non-innovative. Some medical advances have indeed originated in war, but many other efforts were failures and are forgotten. The application of others is limited to their particular time and place, while some wo…
Medicine and war: The value of historical knowledge
The poison gas debate in the inter-war years
Poison gas, together with nuclear and biological weapons, has been classified as a 'weapon of mass destruction'. This has not always been the case; in the years after World War I it was claimed that poison gas was the most humane weapon thinkable, as it did not kill in the numbers that machine guns and artillery did - today's 'conventional' weapons. Gas only made soldiers unconscious, so that they could be taken prisoner, and when the war was ove…
A matter of time and place: Violent conflict and civilian physical health
Immediately and with all available means: The Dutch Red Cross and the field hospital on behalf of the Netherlands Voluntary Legion in WWII
Medical neutrality is one of the main principles of medical-humanitarian aid, and certainly of Red Cross aid. But how does this work in times of foreign occupation? Is it even possible then, or does it almost automatically lead to collaboration? The Dutch example of 1940-1945 gives some insight into this problem. Abandoning its post would end the aid the Dutch Red Cross (DRC) gave, so it was decided to stay in business. This, however, led to adhe…
From Goya to Afghanistan – an essay on the ratio and ethics of medical war pictures
For centuries pictures of the dead and wounded have been part and parcel of war communications. Often the intentions were clear, ranging from medical instructions to anti-war protests. The public's response could coincide with or diverge from the publisher's intention. Following the invention of photography in the nineteenth century, and the subsequent claim of realism, the veracity of medical war images became more complex. Analysing and underst…
Aspects of neutrality: Two Dutch ambulances at the eastern front in the First World War
The paper looks at two First World War ambulance teams which distinctly differed from each other, both in the way they perceived the war and the places at the front where they worked. The first was working on the Serbian side and the second on the Austrian-Hungarian. The questions raised are: how was medical neutrality defined (was it defined at all)? Was neutrality maintained, and if so how? The writings of several protagonists are closely exami…
War and the Health of Nations
War and the Health of Nations, by Zaryab Iqbal, Stanford, Stanford University press, 2010, 189pp., (incl. index), $45 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-8047-5881-9. In her book War and the Health of Nations
The medical war: British military medicine in the First World War
War, trauma and medicine in Germany and Central Europe (1914–1939)
War, trauma and medicine in Germany and Central Europe (1914–1939), edited by Hans-Georg Hofer, Cay-Rudiger Prull and Wolfgang U. Eckart, Freiburg Centaurus Verlag, 2011, 188 pp., £21.75 (paperback
A companion to World War I
A companion to World War I, edited by John Horne, Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, xxviii + 696 pp., £110, ISBN 978-1-4051-2386-0 The medical consequences of actual large-scale violent encounters
Broken men. Shell shock, treatment and recovery in Britain 1914–30
Broken men. Shell shock, treatment and recovery in Britain 1914–30, by Fiona Reid, London, Continuum, 2010, 214 pp., £60 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4411-4885-8, £17.59 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-8472-5241
For soldier and state: Dual loyalty and World War One
Military medicine has always been characterized by some form of dual loyalty: physicians have to consider the interests of the individual soldier--patient as well as the interests of the state and the military in general. The way in which each individual doctor responds to this dual loyalty has mostly been viewed as a product of war circumstances on the one hand, and the personal character and/or religious and ideological beliefs of the physician…
Prevention of tetanus during the First World War
The emergence of tetanus in wounded soldiers during the first months of the First World War (WWI) resulted from combat on richly manured fields in Belgium and Northern France, the use of modern explosives that produced deep tissue wounds and the intimate contact between the soldier and the soil upon which he fought. In response, routine prophylactic injections with anti-tetanus serum were given to wounded soldiers removed from the firing line. Su…
War’s waste. Rehabilitation in World War I America
Medical care as the carrot: The Red Cross in Indonesia during the war of decolonization, 1945–1950
During the war of decolonisation in Indonesia 1945-1950, the Dutch Red Cross and the Dutch East Indies Red Cross delivered aid to sick and wounded soldiers and civilians. This was supposed to happen in cooperation with organisations including the Indonesian Red Cross, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the military health service and civilian health services. Due to lack of resources, doctors and nurses, and due to differing interests,…
The Cambridge History of the First World War
Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years of historical scholarship, it sheds new light on culturally significant issues such as how families and medical authorities adapted to the challenges …
War and embodied memory: Becoming disabled in Sierra Leone
Stretcher bearer! Fighting for life in the trenches
When the ‘medical line’ in World War I is written about, it is usually only doctors who are being referred to. Sometimes it is pointed out that without the nurses, the doctors would have been power
The Lancet, Gaza and academic publishing: Defending political engagement
Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future
Working in a World of Hurt. Trauma and resilience in the narratives of medical personnel in war zones
"Working in a World of Hurt. Trauma and resilience in the narratives of medical personnel in war zones." Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 31(3-4), pp. 188–189
Emil Kraepelin: Grandfather of the DSM
Since the days of anti-psychiatry around 1970, when men like Ronald David Laing and Thomas Szasz, and films like One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, accused society of being mad rather than the inmate
First World War nursing: New perspectives
The history of medicine, and certainly the history of medicine in war, is dominated by male doctors. This fact alone completely justifies the publication of First World War Nursing, edited by Allis
Recycling the Disabled – Army, medicine and modernity in WWI Germany
When reading Heather R. Perry’s book on disability and orthopaedics in World War I Germany, I could not help thinking every now and then of that old ‘70s series, The Six Million Dollar Man. The ope
Ana Carden-Coyne, The Politics of Wounds: Military patients and medical power in the First World War
In a time when (sadly enough) the medical side of warfare is once again very much on the agenda, it is to be cheered that besides the all too often all too shallow attention in newspapers and television journals, critical, scientific voices on medicine and war are also heard, making clear that there is a lot more to it than ‘just’ taking impartial care of the wounded to the best of physicians’ and nurses’ ability, who in these difficult circumsta…
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