Research Catalog

Title

War and medicine / [The Wellcome Trust].

Publication

London : Black Dog, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Larner, Melissa.
• Peto, James.
• Monem, Nadine Käthe
• Wellcome Trust (London, England)
• Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden.
• Wellcome Collection.

Description

iv, 256 p. : ill. (some col.), plans; 25 cm.

Summary

From the Publisher: "This illustrated book is published to coincide with the exhibition War and Medicine, organized by Wellcome Collection, London, in collaboration with the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden. It explores the complex and fascinating relationship between war and medicine, and the ways in which they have influenced each other throughout the modern period. As civilizations develop more sophisticated and destructive technologies with which to wage war, medicine evolves to meet the needs of resulting casualties. This in turn informs advances in civilian medicine and social policy. War and Medicine charts this complex process and the ethical, political and personal issues raised." From the sometimes counterintuitive and ethically challenging principles of triage, to the recent arguments over whether and how post-traumatic stress can be clinically diagnosed, it reveals how humankind's desire to repair and heal has tried, with varying degrees of success, to keep pace with its capacity to maim and kill. The result is an engrossing history of war and medicine in the modern era.

Series Statement

Wellcome collection

Subject

• History, 21st Century
• History, 20th Century
• History, 19th Century
• Inventions > trends
• Warfare
• Military Medicine > history
• War > Medical aspects
• Medicine, Military
• Medicine, Experimental
• Medical innovations

Genre/Form

Exhibition

Note

• "Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-249) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Ken Arnold, Klaus Vogel and James Peto -- Preface: War and medicine, past and future / John A Parrish -- War and medicine in the modern era / Mark Harrison -- Impact of the Crimean War on public health / Hugh Small -- Crimean Journals of the Sisters of Mercy, 1854-1856 / Sister M. Aloysius Doyle -- How varied the image of heart trauma has become: the development of cardiovascular surgery during the first world war / Susanne Hahn -- Life without arms: Carl Hermann Unthan and his motivational work with disabled veterans in Germany / Colleen Schmitz -- Soldiers' bodies in the war machine: triage, propaganda and military medical bureaucracy, 1914-1918 / Ana Carden-Coyne -- Forbidden zone / Mary Borden -- Treated like flowers: the Indian army at the Royal Pavilion Hospital, Brighton, 1914-1916 / Kate Ford and Lucy Shanahan -- Portraits / Percy Hennell -- Suffering and the healing professions: the experience of military medicine in the first and second World Wars / Joanna Burke -- Lingering fever: a World War II nurse's memoir / Lavonne Telshaw Camp -- Stalingrad: wounded bodies and souls / Wolfgang U Eckart -- Portraits / Abram Games -- Last night I dreamed of peace / Dang Thuy Tram -- Why the psychiatry of war is too important to be left to psychiatrists / Ben Shephard -- Living with personal dragons / Anonymous -- Ruff's war: a navy nurse on the front line in Iraq / Cheryl Lynn Ruff -- Army specialist: Iraq war service / Robert Acosta -- Artist's diary: J4MED, Op Herrick 7, 03_11_07-26_11_07 / David Cotterrell -- Open the hospital doors! / Mantador Taher -- Advances in modern combat casualty care with a vision to the future / William Wiesmann, Nicole Draghic and John A Parrish -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors' biographies -- Index -- Colophon.

ISBN

• 9781906155520 (pbk.)
• 1906155526 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 191927291
• SCSB-10411316

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library