A Woman in Berlin: Reappraising Mass Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Public Health

IF 1.4 3区哲学 Q2 ETHICS

Public Health Ethics Pub Date : 2023-07-17 DOI:10.1093/phe/phad014

E. Bansal

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Abstract

Preventing sexual and gender-based violence—and mitigating its devastating impacts on individuals and societies—is a central challenge of public health. A Woman in Berlin is 34-year-old journalist Marta Hillers’s first-hand account of life during the 1945 Red Army occupation of Berlin at the conclusion of World War II, when Russian soldiers collectively raped 2 million German civilians. Reflecting upon Hillers’s testimony, I argue that historical narratives about large-scale acts of sexual and gender-based violence deserve a more central place in public health discourse. I also question how the ethical challenges of memorializing and studying mass crimes might inform future public health efforts to advance gender equity and mitigate sexual violence globally.

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柏林的一位妇女:重新评价公共卫生中的群体性暴力和基于性别的暴力

预防性暴力和基于性别的暴力，并减轻其对个人和社会的破坏性影响，是公共卫生面临的核心挑战。《柏林的女人》是34岁的记者玛尔塔·希勒对1945年二战结束时红军占领柏林期间生活的第一手报道，当时俄罗斯士兵集体强奸了200万德国平民。根据Hillers的证词，我认为，关于大规模性暴力和基于性别的暴力行为的历史叙事应该在公共卫生话语中占据更重要的位置。我还质疑，纪念和研究大规模犯罪的道德挑战如何为未来的公共卫生努力提供信息，以促进性别公平，减少全球性暴力。

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Public Health Ethics PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-MEDICAL ETHICS

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>12 weeks

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