Bobby A Wintermute

Public Health and the Us Military

A History of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first large conceptual overview of the role of the US Army Medical Department in American society during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book details the institutional culture and quest for legitimacy of an institution dedicated to promoting public health and scientific medicine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415881708
• ISBN-10: 0415881706
• Artikelnr.: 30881071

Autorenporträt

Bobby Wintermute is an Assistant Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York. He received his PhD from Temple University in 2006. The US Army Center of Military History, the Army Heritage Center Foundation, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the Rockefeller Archive Center supported the research and writing of this book.

Inhaltsangabe

@contents:Introduction. Waging Health-The US 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, 1901-1917. 6. Vice and the
Soldier: The Army Medical Department and Public Health as Morality,
1890-1917