GEOG 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Prosthesis, Field Hospital, Steven Pinker
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The better angels of our nature --> he suggests the world has become a progressively better place, this is because he believed that violence has declined. There are remembrance days and memorial sites to commemorate the dead, but the injured essentially disappear from view. Essex farm advanced dressing station --> where the wounded went to get their injuries addressed. Behind the dressing station was a vast field of not just the dead, but also the wounded and injured. Lines and lines of wounded were in the field behind the dressing station. Wounded (emily mayhew) --> being wounded was one of the most common occurrences in the world war, but they somehow become a silenced. Flanders casualties were torn apart by shrapnel fragments --> hit by powerful weaponry. The danger is trauma to the body, explosives as well as infections within the environment.
