War and Medicine

by Larner, Melissa; Peto, James; Monem, Nadine

• ISBN13: 9781906155520
• ISBN10: 1906155526
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-25
• Publisher: Black Dog Pub Ltd

Summary

"This illustrated book is published to coincide with the exhibition War and Medicine, organised 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 civilisations 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface: War and Medicine, Past and Future
War and Medicine in the Modern Era	p. 10
The Impact of the Crimean War on Public Health	p. 28
The Crimean Journals of the Sisters of Mercy, 1854-1856	p. 42
How Varied the Image of Heart Trauma Has Become: The Development of Cardiovascular Surgery During the First World War	p. 46
Life Without Arms: Carl Hermann Unthan and His Motivational Work with Disabled Veterans in Germany	p. 56
Soldiers' Bodies in the War Machine: Triage, Propaganda and Military Medical Bureaucracy, 1914-1918	p. 66
The Forbidden Zone	p. 84
Treated Like Flowers: The Indian Army at the Royal Pavillion Hospital, Brighton, 1914-1916	p. 88
Portraits	p. 98
Suffering and the Healing Professions: The Experience of Military Medicine in the First and Second World Wars	p. 108
Lingering Fever: A World War II Nurse's Memoir	p. 126
Stalingrad: Wounded Bodies and Souls	p. 130
Portraits	p. 152
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace	p. 162
Why the Psychiatry of War is Too Important to be Left to Psychiatrists	p. 166
Living With Personal Dragons	p. 180
Ruff's War: A Navy Nurse on the Frontline in Iraq	p. 184
Army Specialist: Iraq War Service	p. 188
Artist's Diary: J4MED, Op Herrick 7, 03.11.07-26.11.07	p. 192
Open the Hospital Doors!	p. 222
Advances in Modern Combat Casualty Care with a Vision to the Future	p. 226
Notes	p. 242
Bibliography	p. 256
Contributors' Biographies	p. 250
Index	p. 252
Colophon	p. 256
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