Glimpsing modernity
Subtitle: military medicine in World War I
By: edited by Stephen C. Craig and Dale C. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781443877145
Subjects: Military Medicine; Congresses; History; World War, 1914-1918; Medical care; History, 20th Century; World War I.
Description: "Glimpsing Modernity is a collection of papers presented at the US Army Medical Museum-sponsored conference on medical aspects of the First World War held in San Antonio, Texas, in February 2012. It captures the metamorphosis of military medicine during the war in a series of interrelated vignettes. Some of these stories provide new and insightful interpretations of known military medical themes, while others depart from these to examine less well-known, but truly important medical topics."--From the publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Stephen C. Craig; title: Medical planning at Gallipoli  -- Steve Oreck; title: Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hude : Canadian MOs in the trenches  -- Tim Cook; title: Tropical military medicine in East Africa  -- William Hanigan; title: Base Hospital #4  -- Jennifer Nieves and Diane O'Malia; title: Mobile Hospital #1  -- William Montgomery; title: The Shadow Land : British medical POWs in Switzerland  -- Emily Mayhew -- Alexis Carrel's contributions to science / -- L. G. Walker; title: White smoke rising : the advent of gas warfare in the First World War and the Response of the Royal Army Medical Corps  -- Pete Starling; title: American Memoirs of the Eastern Front  -- Bradford Waters; title: Dutch ambulances and neutrality  -- Leo Van Bergen; title: In response to circumstances : French railroads and evacuation -- Natalia Starostina-- Epilogue /-- Dale C. Smith.