Title: Public health and the US military : a history of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917 /
Authors: Wintermute, Bobby A.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2011
Subjects: United States. History.; United States. Sanitary affairs.; United States. History.; United States.; United States; Public Health; Military Personnel; Military Hygiene; Military Medicine; Public Health history; Military Personnel history; Military Hygiene history; Military Medicine history; Medicine, Military United States History.; Military hygiene History.; Public health History; United States; United States.; United States
Contents: Introduction: Waging health: The U.S. Army medical officer's quest for identity and legitimacy -- Practice, status, public health and the Army medical officer, 1818-1890 -- The medical officer in "The new school of scientific medicine", 1861-1898 -- The other war of 1898: the Army Medical Department's struggle with disease in the Volunteer Camps -- Making the tropics fit for white men: Army public health in the American Imperial Periphery, 1898-1914 -- The ascendance of sanitation in the Army Medical Department and the quest for preparedness, 1901-1917 -- Vice and the soldier: the Army Medical Department and public health as morality, 1890-1917.