Physicians and Nurses in the Dutch Armed Forces: Professional Identity, Ethical Dilemmas, and Agency

Francesca Hooft is an assistant professor at the History of International Relations section of the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University. She obtained her PhD in 2022. Hooft previously published on the tension between different (moral and legal) frameworks for military medical personnel. Hooft’s research provided advice to the Dutch Defence Healthcare Organisation on improving pre-deployment preparations, deployment healthcare, and personnel welfare both during and after deployments. Her current research interests include military interventions and humanitarianism, ethics in conflict, the position of non-combatants, political ecology, memory, and transitional justice.