With echoes of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor
animated by anecdotes and dialogue
Each exercise displays the muscles being used throughout the movement with detailed instruction on how to achieve proper form and technique
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Through personal stories combined with concrete skills
A Vast Sea of Misery: A History and Guide to the Union and Confederate Field Hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1-November 20, 1863 History_Gift_Guide With echoes of Audre Lorde'sNearly 26,000 men were wounded in the threeday battle of Gettysburg (July 13, 1863). It didnt matter if the soldier wore blue or gray or was an officer or enlisted man, for bullets, shell fragments, bayonets, and swords made no class or sectional distinction. Almost 21,000 of the wounded were left behind by the two armies in and around the small town of 2,400 civilians. Most ended up being treated in makeshift medical facilities overwhelmed by the