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Rolling Back the Fog of War
Wartime data collection is getting more sophisticated. Will it make a difference?
The Scientist 2004, 18(22):13
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The battlefield can be a laboratory for assessing response of the human body to stress. Although scenes may differ, from musket volleys to a shattering car bomb, effects to the body and psyche are similar. "Every war stimulates medical research. It is sad, but true," says Frank Freemon, a semiretired neurologist from Vanderbilt University who earned a PhD in history at age 54 and is an authority on the Civil War.[1]
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