Research Catalog

Title

Public health and the US military : a history of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917 / Bobby A. Wintermute.

Author

Wintermute, Bobby A.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2011.

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Details

Description

283 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge advances in American history ; 3

Uniform Title

Routledge advances in American history ; 3.

Subject

• United States. Army Medical Department (1968- ) > History
• United States. Army > Sanitary affairs
• United States. Army
• United States Medical Department
• Public Health
• Military Personnel
• Military Hygiene
• Military Medicine
• Public Health > history
• Military Personnel > history
• Military Hygiene > history
• Military Medicine > history
• Medicine, Military > United States > History
• Military hygiene > History
• Public health > History
• United States
• United States

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Waging health: The U.S. Army medical officer's quest for identity and legitimacy -- Practice, status, public health and the Army medical officer, 1818-1890 -- The medical officer in "The new school of scientific medicine", 1861-1898 -- The other war of 1898: the Army Medical Department's struggle with disease in the Volunteer Camps -- Making the tropics fit for white men: Army public health in the American Imperial Periphery, 1898-1914 -- The ascendance of sanitation in the Army Medical Department and the quest for preparedness, 1901-1917 -- Vice and the soldier: the Army Medical Department and public health as morality, 1890-1917.

ISBN

• 9780415881708 (hbk)
• 0415881706 (hbk)
• 9780203840597 (ebk)
• 0203840593 (ebk)

LCCN

^^2010017409

OCLC

495781218

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library