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Hello, welcome to this week's Naked Scientists, the program where we bring you the latest breakthroughs

in science, technology and medicine.

I'm Chris Smith. And this week we're going to look at the role that medics play in war-torn

regions of the world. From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the Naked Scientists. A number of wars are currently raging globally, most notably in Gaza, Ukraine and Yemen.

As many people are forced to flee the fighting, teams of medics often run towards

unimaginable horrors to help the injured. But what role can and should the medical profession

play in conflict.

To find out when medics first started appearing on the battlefield, I spoke to Michael Brown,

who's a lecturer in modern British history at Lancaster University and also an expert on war and surgery.

Well, there had long been medical practitioners attached to military forces, you know, throughout

human history, you know, the Romans, Greeks had physicians and surgeons in attendance and throughout the medieval and early

modern periods we also see a medical practitioner as attending to the wounded in war.

Most famously in terms of the history of surgery, we have the French

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