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Between flesh and steel : a history of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the war in Afghanistan / Richard A. Gabriel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gabriel, Richard A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Military.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : Potomac Books, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""War is the slaughter bench of history""--Hegel
- Contents:
- The emergence of modern warfare : 1453 to the twenty-first century
- The Renaissance and the rebirth of the empirical spirit
- The seventeenth century : gunpowder and slaughter
- The eighteenth century : the first effective military medical systems
- The nineteenth century : the age of amputation
- Military medicine in the twentieth century : the emergence of modern military medicine
- Military medicine in the twenty-first century : unconventional warfare
- Some thoughts on war.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61234-421-6
- OCLC:
- 823719472
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