Medicine in First World War Europe
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Medicine in First World War Europe

Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Medicine in First World War Europe

Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists

About this book

The casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented: approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone. In consequence, military-medical services expanded and the war ensured that medical professionals became firmly embedded within the armed services. In a situation of total war civilians on the home front came into more contact than before with medical professionals, and even pacifists played a significant medical role. Medicine in First World War Europe re-visits the casualty clearing stations and the hospitals of the First World War, and tells the stories of those who were most directly involved: doctors, nurses, wounded men and their families. Fiona Reid explains how military medicine interacts with the concerns, the cultures and the behaviours of the civilian world, treating the history of wartime military medicine as an integral part of the wider social and cultural history of the First World War.

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Information

Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781472513243
eBook ISBN
9781472514165
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. 1 War Is Good for Medicine
  8. 2 From the Trench to the Hospital
  9. 3 Iconic Wounds: Gas, Shell Shock, Facial Injury
  10. 4 Ordinary Soldiers and Ordinary Pain
  11. 5 ‘We Did Not Fight’: Medical Pacifism and War
  12. 6 Lessons and Legacies: ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index