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Battlefield medicine : a history of the military ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars through World War I : with a new preface / John S. Haller, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haller, John S., Jr., 1940-
- Series:
- Medical humanities series.
- Medical humanities series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transport of sick and wounded--History.
- Transport of sick and wounded.
- Transportation, Military--History.
- Transportation, Military.
- Ambulances--History.
- Ambulances.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages).
- Edition:
- Pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this first history of the military ambulance, historian John S. Haller Jr. documents the development of medical technologies for treating and transporting wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Noting that the word ambulance has been used to refer to both a mobile medical support system and a mode of transport, Haller takes readers back to the origins of the modern ambulance, covering their evolution in depth from the late eighteenth century through World War I.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Early history
- pt. 2. Consolidation
- pt. 3. The Great War.
- Notes:
- Prev. ed.: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1992, under title Farmcarts to Fords : a history of the military ambulance, 1790-1925.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-69720-2
- 9786613674166
- 0-8093-8787-5
- OCLC:
- 856870329
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