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Oct 2016
37m 37s

'The Marrow of the Tragedy is Concentrat...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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The closing keynote by Dr Jane Potter illuminates how medics and nurses charged with treating the war wounded responded to and processed their experiences, analysing the stories these healers left behind and the silent spaces within them. 
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