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The World in Time: War Wounds The Crimean War was the proving ground for Florence Nightingale’s now famous overhaul of battlefield medicine. Lewis Lapham talks with historian Orlando Figes about this hugely influential war.
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Lewis H. Lapham is Editor of Lapham's Quarterly. He also serves as editor emeritus and national correspondent for Harper's magazine.

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