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The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War
Mark Harrison
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Description for The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War
Hardback. The Medical War describes the role of medicine in the British Army during the First World War. It 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. Num Pages: 364 pages, 18 black and white halftones and 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 239 x 27. Weight in Grams: 698.
The 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, ... Read more
The 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
364
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
697g
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199575824
SKU
V9780199575824
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About Mark Harrison
Mark 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War
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
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 ... Read more
Tracey Loughran, Social History of Medicine
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 ... Read more