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Learning from the wounded the civil war and the rise of american medical science, published by u. N. C. Press. Dr. Devine has produced a book that challenges many of not most of our assumptions about the state of medicine in the civil war. Learning from the wounded draws on close readings of reports issued by hundreds of army and you and Union Positions who treated the wounded and dissected the dead. Despite considerable limitations in training, these doctors rose to the challenges before them and made the most of this unprecedented opportunity to study and report not only on new methods of treat ment but also new findings on the nature of disease, healing, indeed on Human Anatomy itself. In the process the war allowed physicians to elevate their skills, knowledge and methods to the level of europeans. Devines study is breathtaking in spoke scope be according to one of the co ....
Get into them and the whole problem will go away. I think that is fundamentally an evasion of a profound social challenge. Raise the issue of the minimum wage and unions and Bargaining Power of workers, but it strikes me were faced with a conund rum in a sense these changes make the imperative of giving workers more sort of Bargaining Power and a higher minimum wage make that more compelling and important but at the same time those same technologies make it easier for employers to replace workers who become too expensive with machines, so how do we thread that needle . Well, i think that is a real challenge and one of the ways i think a lot of us have talked about, not just the minimum wage, but the earned income tax credit which is a way of encouraging people to work and sharing some of the benefits from the economy to people who are are working and maybe not making very ....
Campaign finance that took place at the Constitution Center. You can watch it tonight in its entirety at 8 00 eastern on our companion network, cspan. [inaudible conversations] and taking you live today to the Heritage Foundation for an update on the Global Response to ebola and the defense departments role in fighting the disease. This should be getting under way shortly. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we ready . [background sounds] good afternoon welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our Louis Lehrman auditorium. We, of course welcome those who join us on our heritage. Org web site. Would ask everyone here in house if youll be so kind to make that last courtesy check that ....
Laura i have the honor of moderating the second panel of this amazing conversation. I want to start by really congratulation congratulating the hamilton project for putting a wonderful event together. If you have not read the age of working machines which i think you put together in record time if you want a summary of the issues that we are chance to discuss here is a very distinguished that of speakers read this. It is really a great overview and it links to everything you need to know. The fact that they brought everybody here you need to know right here i recommend this. Reading entire post on the subject. Laura i thought that was the price of admission that you had to read this. In any event, this panel is going to focus on business innovation. Is going to focus on in two ways. One is what technologies are we really talking about and how much is the conversation really about software coding, a little bit of robots thrown in there occasionally . What technologies are really transfo ....