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Fighting Fit Health, Medicine and War in the Twentieth Century

By Brown , Kevin

Book information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780752486673, 9780752486666, 9780750946490, 0750946490, 0752486675
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
570 kB (583833 bytes)
Pages
459 Seiten\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

The twentieth century saw two world wars and many other conflicts characterised by technological change and severity of casualties. Medicine has adapted quickly to deal with such challenges and new medical innovations in the military field have had advantages in civil medicine. There has thus been interplay between war and medicine that has not only been confined to the armed forces and military medicine, but which has impacted on health and medicine for all of us. These themes will be examined from the Boer War to the dawn of a new century, and a 'war against terror'; the experiences of ...

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