Providing for the casualities of war : : the American experience through World War II / / Bernard Rostker.

• Author: National Defense Research Institute (U.S.); Rostker, Bernard.
• TeilnehmendeR: National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• Place / Publishing House: Santa Monica, CA : : RAND National Defense Research Institute,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Gale eBooks
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 286 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) :; illustrations (some color)
• Notes: "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

War has always been a dangerous business, bringing injury, wounds, and death, and--until recently--often disease. What has changed over time, most dramatically in the last 150 or so years, is the care these casualties receive and who provides it. This book looks at the history of how humanity has cared for its war casualties and veterans, from ancient times through the aftermath of World War II.

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Introduction: Looking to the Past for Lessons . . . to Apply in the Future; Chapter Two: Evolution of the European System of Providing for Casualties: Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance; The Ancient World; Greece; Rome; Byzantium; The Middle Ages; Care for the Wounded During the Crusades; The Late Middle Ages; And Then There Was Spain; The Renaissance; The Legacy

Chapter Three: Evolution of the European System of Providing for Casualties in the Age of Enlightenment: France and Britain as the Antecedents of the American System of Care France: From the Monarchy to the Republic and on; L'Hôtel des Invalides; The French Revolution; Napoleon Bonaparte; The Restoration to the Second Empire; The Evolution of the English System; Medical Care in the Army Under the Tudors; Disabled Veterans in Elizabethan England; The English Civil Wars; The Restoration; Great Britain's Army from the Glorious Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars; Care for Veterans

The Napoleonic Wars: Medical Care Under Wellington From Waterloo to the Crimean War: The Age of Reform Misses the British Army; The Crimean War: Medical Services and the Intervention of Nongovernmental Organizations in the Care of Soldiers and Veterans; From the Crimean War to World War I; Expanding Care to Include Vocational Rehabilitation: A Prototype for America; The Legacy; Chapter Four: The American System of Providing for the Wounded Evolves; The American Colonies; The Continental Army of the American Revolution; Caring for the Wounded of the Revolution

Caring for the Disabled of the Revolution The Corps of Invalids; Invalid (Disability) and Service Pensions; Developing a National System; Institutional Care; Wars of the Early 19th Century: The Indian Wars, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War; The War of 1812; The Indian Wars in the Southeastern United States; The Mexican Wars; The Veterans of Both the War of 1812 and the Mexican War; The Legacy; Chapter Five: The Civil War; A New Kind of War; The U.S. Army Medical Department Goes to War; The Sanitary Commission Helped Shape the Union Medical Department

The Field Organization of the Union Army and the U.S. Sanitary Commission The Need for More Medical Personnel; Innovations in Care for the Union Wounded; Military Hospitals; Convalescent Camps and Provision of Ancillary Services; Shift in Focus; Medical Evacuation-Ambulances, Trains, and Ships; Other Reforms by Surgeon General Hammond; Return to Normal; The Confederate Army's Medical Department; The Types of Casualties; Nature of the Wounded; Amputations; Neuropsychiatric Casualties; Providing for the Disabled Veteran; Problems at Separation

View of the U.S. Sanitary Commission on Establishing Soldiers' Homes