This seemingly inappropriate question is posed in the latest Stanford Medicine. The entire summer issue of the magazine, that runs under the byline ‘War wounds: Bullets, bandages and breakthroughs’, looks at scientific, technological and societal advances that happened during wartime. Examples abound: hastening the mass-production of antibiotics in 1940’s and spurring improvements in emergency medicine before and during both World Wars. The report offers a sampling of views on war medicine, “including insights from injured soldiers, doctors who’ve worked on the front lines, observers such as playwright Anna Deavere Smith and ABC correspondent Bob Woodruff, who was injured covering the Iraq war.”
Read: Is war good for medicine?
Is War Good for Medicine?
June 22nd, 2007 
Medgadget Editors Society