{"id":10908,"date":"2009-07-01T10:21:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=10908"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:30:09","slug":"about-the-cover-lounsbury-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/07\/01\/about-the-cover-lounsbury-72\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Cover: Lounsbury &#039;72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/07\/davelounsbury1374.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/07\/davelounsbury1374-186x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"The COLLEGE KEY presents Dave Lounsbury \u00e2\u0080\u009972 FACP, MD - 2009 College Key Distinguished Alumnus in Residence - \u00e2\u0080\u009cThere are tears in things\u00e2\u0080\u009d War Surgery in Afghanistan &amp; Iraq - 7:30 pm, Chase Lounge. Reception afterwards. Physician and retired U.S. Army Col. Dave Lounsbury \u00e2\u0080\u009972 is an expert in military medicine and ethics who has served with combat field units in the First Gulf War, the Balkans, Turkey and the current Iraq War. He is co-editor of War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003\u00e2\u0080\u00932007, published in 2008 following a number of U.S. Army attempts to censor the book due to its graphic nature. The book\u00e2\u0080\u0099s subject matter and the circumstances surrounding its publication have since prompted discussion and reviews by The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, NPR\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Weekend Edition, and the New England Journal of Medicine.  In 2004, Lounsbury was featured in the PBS NOVA episode \u00e2\u0080\u009cLife and Death in the War Zone,\u00e2\u0080\u009d in which he spoke and wrote about the ethical complexity of medical care during wartime. \u00e2\u0080\u009cAt its most challenging, it can leave [military medical personnel] feeling they&#039;re serving two masters: Hippocrates and Uncle Sam,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he wrote.  Biology major at Bates, he earned his medical degree from the University of Vermont.  He is the former director of the Borden Institute, the publishing agency of the U.S. Army Medical Department at Walter Reid Hospital. Students who wish to meet one-on-one with Dr. Lounsbury during his March 22-24 visit to campus may set up an appointment by contacting Beth Sheppard at the Office of College Advancement, esheppar@bates.edu or 785-8251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dave Lounsbury \u201972, retired Army colonel and co-editor of <em>War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq<\/em>, visited the campus in March as the College Key&#8217;s Distinguished Alumnus in Residence. He spoke with students and delivered an informal talk in Chase Hall. He also took time for this portrait by Phyllis Graber Jensen.<\/p>\n<p>Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Dave Lounsbury &#8217;72, retired Army colonel and co-editor of &#8220;War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq,&#8221; visited the campus in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,162,220,11009],"tags":[10856,10837,2429,3906,4110,5825,9491],"class_list":["post-10908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-health-medicine","category-service","category-the-college","tag-bates-magazine","tag-chase-hall","tag-college-key","tag-government","tag-healthcare","tag-medicine","tag-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88571,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908\/revisions\/88571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}