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War wounds : medicine and the trauma of conflict / edited by Elizabeth Stewart and Ashley Ekins.
- Title
- War wounds : medicine and the trauma of conflict / edited by Elizabeth Stewart and Ashley Ekins.
- Publication
- Wollombi, N.S.W. : Exisle Publishing, 2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | RA646 .W385 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 240 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The history of warfare and the history of medicine are closely intertwined. War has been an accelerator of advances in medical treatment and surgery. As modern weaponry became more destructive, medicine developed techniques and procedures to deal with the volume and nature of battlefield casualties.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1914-2010
- Wounds and Injuries
- Military Medicine
- Concentration Camps
- Wounds and Injuries > history
- World War II
- World War I
- Vietnam Conflict
- Military Personnel
- Military Medicine > history
- Korean War
- Concentration Camps > history
- Afghan Campaign 2001-
- Physicians
- Nurses
- War > Medical aspects
- Medicine, Military > Australia > History
- Soldiers > Treatment > Australia
- Afghan Campaign 2001- > Australia > Biography
- Concentration Camps > history > Australia > Biography
- Korean War > Australia > Biography
- Military Medicine > history > Australia > Biography
- Vietnam Conflict > Australia > Biography
- World War I > Australia > Biography
- World War II > Australia > Biography
- Wounds and Injuries > history > Australia > Biography
- Australia
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine-generated contents note: Preface -- Steve Gower -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Elizabeth Stewart -- First World War -- 1 -- Shell Shock and the lives of the Lost Generation -- Jay Winter -- 2 -- 'Chewing cordite': self-inflicted wounds among soldiers of the Great War -- Ashley Ekins -- 3 -- Scarred by war: medical responses to facially disfigured soldiers of the Great War -- Kerry Neale -- 4 -- 'The home is always here for him': disabled soldiers and family caregiving in Australia after the First World War -- Marina Larsson -- Second World War -- 5 -- Rabbit war wounds -- Paul Weindling -- 6 -- Medical responses to the liberation of Nazi camps, April-May 1945 -- Debbie Lackerstein -- Korea -- 7 -- An Australian army doctor: Bryan Gandevia -- Simon Gandevia -- Vietnam -- 8 -- Diggers and a 'dose of the clap': the problem of sexually transmitted infections among Australian soldiers in Vietnam -- David Bradford -- 9 -- Surgery under fire: civilian surgical teams in Vietnam -- Elizabeth Stewart -- 10 -- The official history's Agent Orange account: the veteran's perspective -- Graham Walker -- 11 -- Australia's Agent Orange story: a historian's perspective -- Peter Edwards -- Personal Stories -- 12 -- A short walk in a minefield -- Tony White -- 13 -- Military nursing in Afghanistan, 2008 -- Sharon Cooper -- 14 -- Living with war wounds -- Graham Edwards -- Notes -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9781921497872 (pbk)
- 1921497874 (pbk)
- OCLC
- 646828610
- SCSB-11108739
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library