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Medicine in First World War Europe : soldiers, medics, pacifists / Fiona Reid.
LIBRA D629.E9 R45 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, Fiona, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--Europe.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Medicine, Military--Europe--History--20th century.
- Medicine, Military.
- Medical care.
- History.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Explores the history of medical services, health and welfare in Europe during the First World War."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: War is good for medicine
- From the trench to the hospital
- Iconic wounds: gas, shell shock, facial injury
- Ordinary soldiers and ordinary pain
- "We did not fight": medical pacifism and war
- Lessons and legacies: "Blood swept lands and seas of red."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472510020
- 147251002X
- 9781472513243
- 147251324X
- OCLC:
- 956435084
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