Medicine and modern warfare / / edited by Roger Cooter, Mark Harrison and Steve Sturdy.

After years at the margins of medical history, the relationship between war and medicine is at last beginning to move centre-stage. The essays in this volume focus on one important aspect of that relationship: the practice and development of medicine within the armed forces from the late nineteenth...

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Superior document:Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 55
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, Atlanta GA : : Rodopi,, 1999.
Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 55.
Physical Description:1 online resource (iii, 286 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Medicine and the Management of Modern Warfare: an Introduction / Mark Harrison
  • ‘Before the World in Concealed Disgrace’: Physicians, Professionalization and the 1898 Cuban Campaign of the Spanish American War / J.T. H. Connor
  • ‘The Malingerers are to Blame’: The Dutch Military Health Service before and during the First World War / Leo van Bergen
  • Almroth Wright at Netley: Modern Medicine and the Military in Britain, 1892-1902 / Michael Worboys
  • ‘The Conquest of the Silent Foe’: British and American Military Medical Reform Rhetoric and the Russo-Japanese War / Claire Herrick
  • Pathology at War 1914–1918: Germany and Britain in Comparison / Cay-Rüdiger Prüll
  • The British Medical Officer on the Western Front: The Training of Doctors for War / Ian R. Whitehead
  • Disease, Discipline and Dissent: The Indian Army in France and England, 1914-1915 / Mark Harrison
  • ‘War always brings it on’: War, STDs, the military, and the civilian population in Britain, 1850-1950 / Lesley A. Hall
  • Sex and the Citizen Soldier: Health, Morals and Discipline in the British Army during the Second World War / Mark Harrison
  • The Repression of War Trauma in American Psychiatry after WWII / Hans Pols.