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| :: 日 時 | 平成30年12月13日（木） |
| :: 場 所 | 別館6階大会議室 |
| :: 座 長 | 樋田 一徳 |
「Humanity amidst Carnage: Sir William Osler and the First World War」
Professor Mark Harrison
Fellow of Green Templeton College
Director, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Co-Director, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
University of Oxford
For Sir William Osler, the ‘Great War’ of 1914-18 was a very personal tragedy. As is well known, it was in that war that he lost his beloved son, Revere. Shortly after the end of the war, after the third wave of pandemic influenza swept through Britain, Osler himself perished, weakened by years of strain, illness and sadness. But Osler never lost sight of the importance of the war or why it was being fought. The results were grim but the cause, he felt, was just.
The subject of this lecture is Osler’s writings on the war and his views on medicine’s part in its prosecution. Like most others who were involved in medical work during the war, he saw the need to subordinate the care of the individual to the ultimate aim of winning the war. But this did not mean that humanity was extinguished. Even within the constraints of military medicine, Osler could see ways of retaining the individuality of patients and something noble in the medical work that was performed; something that rose above simple patriotism. It is this tension between the needs of the war and the preservation of a humane outlook that is the main theme of this lecture.
