Fighting Fit
eBook - ePub

Fighting Fit

Health, Medicine and War in the Twentieth Century

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fighting Fit

Health, Medicine and War in the Twentieth Century

About this book

The twentieth century saw two world wars and many other conflicts characterised by technological change and severity of casualties. Medicine has adapted quickly to deal with such challenges and new medical innovations in the military field have had advantages in civil medicine. There has thus been interplay between war and medicine that has not only been confined to the armed forces and military medicine, but which has impacted on health and medicine for us all. These themes will be examined from the Boer War to the dawn of a new century, and a 'war against terror;' the experiences of individuals as doctors, nurses and patients, are highlighted, with personal, sometimes graphic, first-hand accounts bringing home the realities of medical treatment in wartime.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1 National Inefficiency
  7. 2 Medicine in Khaki
  8. 3 Business not as Usual
  9. 4 Spanish Rehearsal
  10. 5 Healing for Victory
  11. 6 Road to Utopia
  12. 7 Behind the Wire
  13. 8 Trauma and Terror
  14. Bibliography
  15. Copyright