About Medical History: Amputations In The Battlefield
Historian Dan Snow meets Kevin Goodman to learn how battlefield surgery progresses in the 18th and 19th centuries through the Napoleonic War, American Civil War and American Indian Wars. Could medicine keep up with wars now fought on an industrial scale?
Medical History: Amputations In The Battlefield is presented by History Hit. Its listed runtime is 23 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.
As a history documentary, Medical History: Amputations In The Battlefield uses medical, history, amputations as its central frame. Historical documentaries interpret surviving evidence rather than simply replaying the past. Watch how archives, archaeology, expert interpretation and first-hand records are used, and note where uncertainty or competing explanations remain.
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- What evidence, testimony or observation does the film use to explain medical, history, amputations?
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Documentary details and original source
- Title
- Medical History: Amputations In The Battlefield
- Category
- History
- Runtime
- 23 minutes
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- History Hit
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