The Medical War

British Military Medicine in the First World War
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-957582-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

The Medical War describes the role of medicine in the British Army during the First World War. Mark Harrison 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. Effective medical provisions were vital to the continuation of the war in all the major theatres, for both political and operational reasons.

The Medical War is divided more or less evenly between an analysis of medicine on the Western Front and selected campaigns in other theatres of the war, principally Mesopotamia, Gallipoli, Salonika, East Africa, and the Middle East. It explores preventive medicine and casualty disposal and treatment, attempting to view these not only from the perspective of medical personnel but also from that of commanders, patients, politicians, and the general public. In providing this wide-ranging
geographical and thematic coverage of medicine, The Medical War is unique among books on medicine in the First World War. It also differs from existing work in considering the British Army's medical responsibilities for non-British troops and labourers, principally those of the Indian Army and various
colonial labour detachments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.