by Kyle Falcon | Sep 1, 2020 | Medicine, Podcast |
At the age of 13, Ted Barris asked his father a common question: “Dad what did you do in the war?” This began a fifty-seven-year investigation into his father’s war experiences as a sergeant medic in the US Army during its bloodiest campaign during the liberation of...
by Kyle Falcon | Aug 5, 2020 | Medicine, Reviews |
Sarah Glassford. Mobilizing Mercy: A History of the Canadian Red Cross. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. Pp. 408. By Adam Montgomery This review appears in Canadian Military History Vol. 28 No. 1 (2019). Sarah Glassford’s Mobilizing Mercy...
by Kyle Falcon | Jun 1, 2020 | Medicine, Podcast |
Approximately 750,000 people were killed over four years during the American Civil War, two-thirds of these fatalities were caused by disease. This staggering death count was a shock to American physicians who were unregulated, undertrained and operating in the dark....