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These articles are really cool. I read the "Problems of Infection Control" section of this first one and it's got some really good stuff about amputation and infection...
These articles are really cool. I read the "Problems of Infection Control" section of this first one and it's got some really good stuff about amputation and infection...
I also read this piece which is a lecturer on Ancient History from Manchester Metropolitan University writing about PTSD as we recognize it today and how it can't accurately be applied to soldiers in Antiquity.
Super interesting and thesis worthy stuff.
I have a lot of thoughts on the matter of trying to apply modern psychology to historical peoples, but I in the middle on this one. I agree that modern warfare creates a specific sort of PTSD, really bad...
stuff, and that our culture plays into that just as Mr. Crowley says, but I also think the close comraderie as a opposed to the isolation would create it's own sort of emotional trauma on ancients peoples.