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Subject(s)

• Medicine, Military—20th century [Browse]
• Post-traumatic stress disorder [Browse]
• Soldiers—Sexual behavior—History—20th century [Browse]
• War—Medical aspects [Browse]

Related name

• Cooter, Roger [Browse]
• Harrison, Mark, 1964- [Browse]
• Sturdy, Steve [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Essays [Browse]

Series

• Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine [More in this series]
• Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 55. [More in this series]
• Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 55
• The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine

Summary note

Spanning the laboratory and the battlefield, and covering a range of national contexts, the essays in this volume provide valuable insights into different national styles and priorities. They also examine the relationship between medical personnel and the armed forces as a whole, by looking at such matters as the prevention of disease, the treatment of psychiatric casualties and the development of medical science. The volume as a whole demonstrates that medicine became an increasingly important part of military life in the era of modern warfare, and suggests new avenues and approaches for future study.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 World War II / Hans Pols.

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ISBN

• 9042005467 ((bound))
• 9789042005464 ((bound))
• 904200536X ((pbk.))
• 9789042005365 ((pbk.))

OCLC

43328012

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