Tag: first aid
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Working Group, Katarina Sawtelle
Katarina Sawtelle, an anesthesiologist at MaineHealth and an M.A. graduate from Johns Hopkins, presented an article based on her thesis, which examines the life-saving efforts of the British Royal Humane Society from the late-1700s to early-1800s. Her talk described some of the public spaces where these life-saving activities occurred and changing historical ideas about the drowned and…
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Working Group, Jonathan Reinarz
Jonathan Reinarz from the University of Birmingham delivered a presentation based on his current collaborative research project with Gayle Davis at the University of Edinburgh titled “Simulating Injuries in Twentieth-Century British First Aid.” Jonathan introduced our conversation with some context about the British Casualties Union, which was formed during WWII and used realistic simulations to…