War Wounds
Subtitle: Medicine and the Trauma of Conflict
Publisher: Exisle Publishing Pty Limited
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781921497872
Subjects: War, medical aspects; Medicine, military, history; Soldiers; World war, 1914-1918; Wounds and injuries, treatment; Medicine, australia
Description: The history of warfare and the history of medicine are closely intertwined. War has been an accelerator of advances in medical treatment and surgery. As modern weaponry became more destructive, medicine developed techniques and procedures to deal with the volume and nature of battlefield casualties.