Mark Harrison

The Medical War

British Military Medicine in the First World War

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Produktbeschreibung

The Medical War describes the role of medicine in the British Army during the First World War. It argues that medicine played a vital part in the war, helping to sustain the morale of troops and their families, and reducing the wastage of manpower.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780199575824
• ISBN-10: 0199575827
• Artikelnr.: 31386157

Autorenporträt

Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of medicine, war and imperialism, and on the history of disease. He currently holds a fellowship at Green Templeton College and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is winner of the Templer Medal Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research in 2005 for Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Building the medical machine: the Western Front, 1914 - June 1916
* 2: The machine in motion: the Western Front, July 1916 - November
1918
* 3: War, health, and citizenship: preventive medicine on the Western
Front
* 4: Gallipoli: the failure of command
* 5: 'Wonder and pain': Mesopotamia, November 1914 - May 1916
* 6: War against nature: malaria in Salonika, East Africa, and the
Middle East
* 7: Military medicine in transition: Mesopotamia, June 1916 - November
1918
* Conclusion
* Bibliography