They will also explore how technology relates to advances in both healing and killing. By analyzing these relationships, students will gain an understanding of the moral and ethical implications of technology. Explain the meaning of this statement. Army medicine is a paradox. Discuss the paradox of war and battlefield or army medicine.
Technology creates more efficient weapons and more effective medical treatments.
Discuss both the horrors and benefits of technology. In 1848 French army Captain Claude E. Mini perfected a rifled expanding bullet that soldiers used in the American Civil War. Soldiers died of their wounds at an alarming rate because of infection. Surgeons unwittingly contributed to this because of the unsanitary conditions of their surgical tools and areas. I because of the germ theory of disease.