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Peak Antibiotics - 15 Aug 2010
Probably more than anything else, the discovery of antibiotics heralded the age of modern medicine, enabling the eradication of heretofore deadly diseases. Coinciding as it did with the rise of oil use and oil-dependent technologies, and the industrial-technological-scientific-futurist mindset, it seemed to mark a permanent change in the way diseases were treated.
But the pendulum [...]
Post-Civilized Emergency Medicine - 07 Apr 2008
From SurvivalBlog, here are a few letters discussing emergency medical care in a post-civilized environment, with a lot of good ideas. They tend to have more of a doomsday and militant perspective over there than I feel familiar or comfortable with, but who’s to say that’s not warranted in a post-civilized situation.
The original letter:
I [...]
Read Full Post »The Future of Medicine - 18 Feb 2008
Why is this whole Health Beyond Civilization theme so important?
Two reasons. First, if you’re reading this, you probably share the assumption, or are concerned about the possibility, that modern industrial civilization has reached its apex, because the oil supply on which it is based is now at a plateau or declining even while population [...]