British military and naval medicine, 1600-1830 / edited by Geoffrey L. Hudson.
Standing armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Prevention, discipline, and surveillance produced results, and career opportunities for physicians and surgeons. All these developments had an impact on...
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| Superior document: | Clio medica (New York, N.Y.) ; 81 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio medica (New York, N.Y.) ;
81. Wellcome series in the history of medicine. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Editors British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830
- List of Illustrations / Editors British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830
- List of Tables / Editors British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830
- Preface / Editors British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830
- Introduction: British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600–1830 / Geoffrey L. Hudson
- Warfare and the Creation of British Imperial Medicine, 1600–1800 / J.D. Alsop
- The British Army in North America and the West Indies, 1755–83: A Medical Perspective / Paul E. Kopperman
- Disease and Medicine in the Armies of British India, 1750–1830: The Treatment of Fevers and the Emergence of Tropical Therapeutics / Mark Harrison
- Who Cared? Military Nursing during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1642–60 / Eric Gruber von Arni
- Privates on Parade: Soldiers, Medicine and the Treatment of Inguinal Hernias in Georgian England / Philip R. Mills
- British Naval Health, 1700–1800: Improvement over Time? / Patricia Kathleen Crimmin
- The Medical Profession and Representations of the Navy, 1750–1815 / Margarette Lincoln
- From Palace to Hut: The Architecture of Military and Naval Medicine / Christine Stevenson
- Internal Influences in the Making of the English Military Hospital: The Early-Eighteenth-Century Greenwich / Geoffrey L. Hudson
- Notes on Contributors / Editors British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830
- Index / Editors British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830.