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OverviewThe Medical War describes the role of medicine in the British Army during the First World War. Mark Harrison argues that medicine played a vital part in the war, helping to sustain the morale of troops and their families, and reducing the wastage of manpower. Effective medical provisions were vital to the continuation of the war in all the major theatres, for both political and operational reasons.The Medical War is divided more or less evenly between an analysis of medicine on the Western Front and selected campaigns in other theatres of the war, principally Mesopotamia, Gallipoli, Salonika, East Africa, and the Middle East. It explores preventive medicine and casualty disposal and treatment, attempting to view these not only from the perspective of medical personnel but also from that of commanders, patients, politicians, and the general public. In providing this wide-ranging geographical and thematic coverage of medicine, The Medical War is unique among books on medicine in the First World War. It also differs from existing work in considering the British Army's medical responsibilities for non-British troops and labourers, principally those of the Indian Army and various colonial labour detachments. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark Harrison (Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.702kg ISBN: 9780199575824ISBN 10: 0199575827 Pages: 364 Publication Date: 28 October 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Building the medical machine: the Western Front, 1914 - June 1916 2: The machine in motion: the Western Front, July 1916 - November 1918 3: War, health, and citizenship: preventive medicine on the Western Front 4: Gallipoli: the failure of command 5: 'Wonder and pain': Mesopotamia, November 1914 - May 1916 6: War against nature: malaria in Salonika, East Africa, and the Middle East 7: Military medicine in transition: Mesopotamia, June 1916 - November 1918 Conclusion BibliographyReviewsHarrison has a keen eye for societal, political, circumstantial and ideological influences on medical policy ... he makes perfectly clear the enormous importance of medicine and healthcare in general for waging (a victorious) war ... an excellent book. Leo van Bergen, Medicine Conflict and Survival Harrison has a keen eye for societal, political, circumstantial and ideological influences on medical policy ... he makes perfectly clear the enormous importance of medicine and healthcare in general for waging (a victorious) war ... an excellent book. * Leo van Bergen, Medicine Conflict and Survival * the story Harrison tells is compelling and will be immensely useful to future scholars of medicine and the First World War. * Tracey Loughran, Social History of Medicine * Author InformationMark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of medicine, war and imperialism, and on the history of disease. He currently holds a fellowship at Green Templeton College and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is winner of the Templer Medal Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research in 2005 for Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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