Disasters: Reflects from a few in reality

Annual Congress and Medicare Expo on Trauma & Critical Care

March 07-09, 2016 Madrid, Spain

Antony J W Taylor

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Trauma Treat

Abstract :

By definition disasters are catastrophic large-scale events that are beyond the ability of communities to cope, without substantial assistance from organized agencies outside. Long before the latter became established nationally and internationally, explanations were sought in the realm of mythology, superstition and religion for the errant behavior that might have cause them. Then appropriate remedies were devised to try to restore the status quo. Today, while such procedures might occasionally still coincide with relief in relation to natural disasters, they fall far short in relation to those of either a technological or a human kind. The contretemps is raised here in connection with a few disasters with which the presenter was involved, together with the faltering steps he took to bridge the explanatory gaps. The discourse embraces an interdisciplinary conceptual model, permeates epistemological boundaries, raises questions of clinical/cross-cultural/social practice, and appeals for independent validation. If substantiated, it would carry implications for the training of practitioners, researchers, and their teachers