Lifesavers and Body Snatchers - Tim Cook

The constant evolution and increasing sophistication of medical care in WWI saved millions of soldiers from disease and injury. After the war, doctors and nurses applied these innovations in their countries, profoundly impacting public health. In Canada, not just new techniques were brought back from Europe: medical units harvested almost 800 individual body parts from the front for exhibition in Great Britain, and later in Canada.
Investigate this hidden history of the medical war with Tim Cook, Chief Historian and Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum, as he examines this shocking discovery and its legacy in his new book, “Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War.” Hosted in partnership with the Canadian War Museum and in conjunction with the exhibition Bespoke Bodies: The Design & Craft of Prosthetics.
For more information about the National WWI Museum and Memorial visit theworldwar.org

[@galloian]

Phenomenal presentation! I could listen to Tim Cook talk all day!

[@kevinlister2195]

Another brilliant talk from this channel.

[@footballfossil]

Thanks Tim. Just ordered your book. Looking firward to reading it.

[@arnoldcohen1250]

Ex Morte Vita - from Death Life - the Moto of the NYC Medical Examiner. Post mortem examination was and still is a major learning and teaching tool. In the age before modern imaging and modeling, the use of anatomical specimens was a standard teaching tool, still reflected in memory at the anatomical museums found at many medical schools and institutes (the museums in Basel, at Harvard, the Mutter in Philadelphia come to mind). This was akin to the seemingly paradoxical collection of wild animal taxidermy specimens hunted, killed and stuffed as part of the early conservation movement. However, the respect and deference now appropriately shown to such specimens was not necessarily part of the ethos of those times.

[@whazzat8015]

"They were'nt sure what they were getting" They were getting hepatitis, possibly syphillis.
Almost made me an antivaxer,
At least less smallpox

[@benoplustee]

Are you suggesting the canadian forces injected their men deliberately with STIs?