TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooter,Roger
AU  - Harrison,Mark
AU  - Sturdy,Steve
TI  - War, medicine and modernity
SN  - 0750918020
AV  - RA646 .W26
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Stroud
PB  - Sutton
KW  - War
KW  - Medical aspects
KW  - War and society
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Military Medicine
KW  - history
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Warfare
KW  - sociology
KW  - aat
KW  - fast
KW  - Student Collection
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Of war, medicine and modernity: Introduction / Roger Cooter and Steve Sturdy -- 2. The Red Cross flag in the Franco-Prussian War: Civilians, humanitarians and war in the 'modern age' / Bertrand Taithe -- 3. Striving to be separate?: Civilian and military doctors in Cape Town during the Anglo-Boer War / Molly Sutphen -- 4. War as experiment: Physiology, innovation and administration in Britain, 1914-1918: The case of chemical warefare / Steve Sturdy -- 5. 'Soldier's heart': The redefinition of heart disease and speciality formation in early twentieth-century Great Britain / Joel D. Howell -- 6. Physicians and citizens: US medical women and military service in the first World War / Kimberly Jensen -- 7. Malingering in modernity: Psychological scripts and adversarial encounters during the first World War / Roger Cooter -- 8. Status, manpower and mental fitness: Mental deficiency in the first World War / Mathew Thomson -- 9. Sex, medicine and morality during the first World War / Lutz D.H. Sauerteig -- 10. Fighting militarism?: British nursing during the second World War / Penny Starns -- 11. Fighting research: Army participation in the clinical testing and mass production of penicillin during the second World War / Peter Neuschul -- 12. Disciplining the emotions: Fear, psychiatry and the second World War / Joanna Bourke
N2  - This volume presents the first scholarly assessment of the interconnections between war, medicine, society and modernity. Covering the period 1870 to 1945, this work emphasises the effects of warfare on the development of the modern world
ER  -