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Release: 1999-10-28
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 904200536X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
MEDICINE & MODERN WARFARE (Clio Medica S.) pdf
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After years at the margins of medical history, the relationship between war and medicine is at last beginning to move centre-stage. The essays in this volume focus on one important aspect of that relationship: the practice and development of medicine within the armed forces from the late nineteenth century through to the end of the Second World War. During this crucial period, medicine came to occupy an important position in military life, especially during the two world wars when manpower was at a premium. Good medical provisions were vital to the conservation of manpower, protecting servicemen from disease and returning the sick and wounded to duty in the shortest possible time. A detailed knowledge of the serviceman's mind and body enabled the authorities to calculate and standardise rations, training and disciplinary procedures.
Spanning the laboratory and the battlefield, and covering a range of national contexts, the essays in this volume provide valuable insights into differe Download MEDICINE & MODERN WARFARE (Clio Medica S.) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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