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Subject(s)

• Medicine, Military—United States—History [Browse]
• Military hygiene—History [Browse]
• Public health—History [Browse]
• United States Army Medical Dept—History [Browse]
• United States Army—Sanitary affairs [Browse]

Series

• Routledge advances in American history ; 3. [More in this series]
• Routledge advances in American history ; 3 [More in this series]

Summary note

Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and organization coincident with the creation of modern public health in the Progressive Era. A period of tremendous social change, this time bore witness to the creation of an ideology of public health that influences public policy even today. The US Army Medical Department exerted tremendous influence on the methods adopted by the nation's leading civilian public health figures and agencies at the turn of the twentieth century.Public Health and the

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction: Waging Health-The U.S. Army Medical Officer's Quest for Identity and Legitimacy; 1 Practice, Status, Public Health, and the Army Medical Officer, 1818-1890; 2 The Medical Officer in "The New School Of Scientific Medicine," 1861-1898; 3 The Other War of 1898: The Army Medical Department's Struggle with Disease in the Volunteer Camps; 4 Making the Tropics Fit for White Men: Army Public Health in the American Imperial Periphery, 1898-1914
• 5 The Ascendance of Sanitation in the Army Medical Department and the Quest for Preparedness, 1901-19176 Vice and the Soldier: The Army Medical Department and Public Health as Morality, 1890-1917; Notes; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 1-136-89267-2
• 1-136-89268-0
• 1-282-92990-9
• 9786612929908
• 0-203-84059-3

OCLC

• 741356626
• 692197010

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203840597

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